Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Apr 2004 15:32:58 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: SATA support merge in 2.4.27 |
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On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 09:24:09PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com> writes: > > > Jeff Garzik sent me a SATA update to be merged in 2.4.x. > > > > A lot of new boxes are shipping with SATA-only disks, and its pretty bad > > to not have a "stable" series without such industry-standard support. > > > > This is the last feature to be merged on 2.4.x, and only because its quite > > necessary. > > > > Any oppositions? > > The big problem is that the SATA code will move some disks from > /dev/hdX to /dev/sdX (e.g. most disks in modern intel chipsets) And > then the boxes don't boot anymore. It's probably a bad idea to merge > it.
This statement is false for the majority of the SATA drivers.
Further, ata_piix is not included in the merge.
Jeff
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