.\" This manpage has been automatically generated by docbook2man .\" from a DocBook document. This tool can be found at: .\" .\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches, .\" etc. to Steve Cheng . .TH "CHOOSE_DRIVE" "9" "09 October 2005" "" "" .SH NAME choose_drive \- select a drive to service .SH SYNOPSIS "SYNOPSIS" .sp \fB .sp ide_drive_t * choose_drive (ide_hwgroup_t * \fIhwgroup\fB); \fR .SH "ARGUMENTS" .TP \fB\fIhwgroup\fB\fR hardware group to select on .SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP \fBchoose_drive\fR selects the next drive which will be serviced. This is necessary because the IDE layer can't issue commands to both drives on the same cable, unlike SCSI.