From: Chris Jones <chrisjones@spin.net.au>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Lord <kernel@teksavvy.com>
Subject: Re: Hard drive detection
Date: Sat, 5 May 2012 14:00:05 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120505140005.19247cd0@ubuntu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FA4959F.2000905@teksavvy.com>
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?
Regards
Chris Jones
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-05 4:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-04 8:56 Hard drive detection Chris Jones
2012-05-04 9:20 ` Arend van Spriel
2012-05-04 13:13 ` Mark Lord
2012-05-04 23:30 ` Chris Jones
2012-05-05 2:51 ` Mark Lord
2012-05-05 4:00 ` Chris Jones [this message]
2012-05-05 14:46 ` Mark Lord
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