>
> I was curious that can we develop a generic disk driver that could
> handle all the kinds of hard drives - IDE, SCSI, RAID et al?
ide_generic
sd_mod
All there, what more do you want?
> I thought we could use the BIOS interrupt 13H for this purpose,
>
I fail to see a BIOS on non-x86 computers.
> but ran into a LOT of real mode / protected mode issues.
>
Sure. We are not real mode.
Ever heard of BIOS limitations? If no, first check out
http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/bios/sizeGB8-c.html
Jan Engelhardt
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