Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 05 May 2012 10:46:14 -0400 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | Re: Hard drive detection |
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On 12-05-05 12:00 AM, Chris Jones wrote: > On Fri, 04 May 2012 22:51:11 -0400 > Mark Lord <kernel@teksavvy.com> wrote: > >> On 12-05-04 07:30 PM, Chris Jones wrote: >> .. >>> Thanks Mark. That's exactly what I was looking for. And are both >>> PATA and SATA internal drives both located in drivers/ata? >> .. >> >> Yes. >> But historically, PATA drives were handled by the original IDE drivers >> that I worked on in the mid-1990s. That code is in linux/drivers/ide, >> but we're trying hard to phase it out. The code in linux/drivers/ata >> (aka. "libata") handles nearly all of the same PATA stuff and more. >> > > Yeah I remember reading something a while back about all the > IDE/PATA support being migrated to the SATA sets and phasing out the > legacy IDE stuff. > > So technically, the old IDE sets could be removed with no negative > effect on a modern system? Correct?
That's how I do it here. So, yes.
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