From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Subject: Re: What still uses the block layer? Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:54:33 -0600 Message-ID: <20071016195432.GA31306@parisc-linux.org> References: <200710112011.22000.rob@landley.net> <200710141836.55211.rob@landley.net> <4712FE33.3000400@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <200710150426.04924.rob@landley.net> <20071015160800.GA324@parisc-linux.org> <47139F15.7050702@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <20071016111911.30a18e12@the-village.bc.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from palinux.external.hp.com ([192.25.206.14]:45496 "EHLO mail.parisc-linux.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763909AbXJPTyf (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:54:35 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: david@lang.hm Cc: Alan Cox , Stefan Richter , Rob Landley , David Newall , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Suparna Bhattacharya , Nick Piggin On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 12:54:58PM -0700, david@lang.hm wrote: > On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Alan Cox wrote: > >I wouldn't try dividing those by pata v sata. You'll cause all sorts of > >problems in the process because of PATA-SATA and SATA-PATA bridges. > > if you use a PATA-SATA bridge (IDE drive SATA controller), it would look > to the system like a SATA drive and be addressed and enumerated as SATA. But you don't know where the bridge is. It might be on the drive's board, it might be an explicit enclosure, or it might be on the motherboard. Each of those scenarios is going to have a different user expectation. -- Intel are signing my paycheques ... these opinions are still mine "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step."