From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Subject: Re: Fwd: [LIBATA] drives not detected Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 15:56:18 +0100 Message-ID: <200702241556.19089.bzolnier@gmail.com> References: <8d158e1f0702150048x4eb73acawc3c3b87d0d80a6d4@mail.gmail.com> <45E0381C.3030706@gmail.com> <8d158e1f0702240556s52a79202g974ad8208ee7e306@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.174]:60901 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932750AbXBXOuG (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Feb 2007 09:50:06 -0500 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 44so550348uga for ; Sat, 24 Feb 2007 06:50:05 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <8d158e1f0702240556s52a79202g974ad8208ee7e306@mail.gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Patrick Ale Cc: Tejun Heo , Jeff Garzik , albertl@mail.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox , Mark Lord , Sergei Shtylyov On Saturday 24 February 2007, Patrick Ale wrote: > On 2/24/07, Tejun Heo 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