Re: Fwd: [LIBATA] drives not detected

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>]

On Saturday 24 February 2007, Patrick Ale wrote:
> On 2/24/07, Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Patrick Ale wrote:
> 
> 
> >
> > The upper one is 40c while the other one is 80c.
> 
> No, they are all 80 , two of them came with the mainboard, the so
> called "green" connectors as gigabyte calls them, the other one was an
> 80c with blue connector.
> 
> I dunno, I guess I should review my "spare" parts and see what's
> really useable from this pile of hardware I have here.
> 
> But hey, one thing is for sure, and I think it's a positive thing.
> If libata sees problems or seems to have problems, you can be 99% sure
> there IS a problem, where the legacy drivers just act all happy and
> keep you thinking everything is peachy and all.

I'm really sorry that legacy drivers just work.  I will try harder. ;-)

The real problem is that while legacy drivers contain a ton of workarounds
and fixes for problems like that they often lacks the documentation about it.

> So again, thumbs up for libata.
> 
> Patrick