Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Sep 2004 17:45:32 +0200 | From | Julien Oster <> | Subject | Re: IDE class driver with SATA controllers |
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Quoting Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>:
Hello Jeff,
> With regards to libata being the default, making that an _option_ is > feasible, but we will probably default to the IDE driver for quite some > time. There are issues of /dev/hda versus /dev/sda, keeping existing > user setups working, etc.
once there is reasonable support to indeed use libata as default, we could just wrap a pass through IDE driver around, which allocates the major numbers for /dev/hd* and just feeds everything to libata. Or are the semantics too different?
Regards, Julien
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