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I would agree with your view on IDE becoming obsolete on hard drives, but I as yet, am not aware of any CD/DVD drives with a SATA interface. On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > On Saturday 19 November 2005 21:20, Marc Perkel wrote: > [snip] >> >> SATA isn't really "new" any more. I personally consider IDE to be >> obsolete. Seems to me that Linux should fully support SATA to the same >> level as IDE drives. And I'm saying that as someone who doesn't have to >> actually code it. But I will leave messages of praise and thanks in this >> mailing list if you all catch up. > > As Alan mentions in another thread, what is needed is true hotplug support, > which is difficult with some controllers for which we have poor (or no) > documentation. I wouldn't hold your breath. > > As for pass-thru standby/sleep commands, as long as the pass-thru patch got > into mainline, try a very recent version of hdparm which should understand > sending the ATA commands over SCSI (libata). > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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