Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 4 Sep 2006 14:35:46 +0200 | From | Tomasz Torcz <> | Subject | Re: PATA drivers queued for 2.6.19 |
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On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 02:07:29PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >>I just pulled the "pata-drivers" branch of libata-dev.git into the > >>"upstream" branch, which means that Alan's libata PATA driver collection > >>is now queued for 2.6.19. > >> > >>Testing-wise, these PATA drivers have been Andrew Morton's -mm tree for > >>many months. Community-wise, no one posted objections to the PATA > >>driver merge plan, when Alan posted it on LKML and linux-ide. > > > >Too friggin' hard to test Alan's stuff for older IDE here, therefore > >ignored so far :( I have some old hardware that Alan is addressing, > >even an old IBM 260MB PCMCIA HDD. > > > >I can't see an easy way to arrange multi-boot with different /etc/fstab > >depending if I'm trying /dev/hdaX or /dev/sdaX. Parallel '/' partitions? > > Got udev? > > /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3802110A_5LR13RN7-partX could be your friend.
Almost. It would alternate between "ata-" and "scsi-".
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