From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Dominic ES. Ijichi" Subject: Re: PIIX libata ? Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 10:48:26 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <31311506.91145440106542.JavaMail.root@willow.ijichi.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from willow.ijichi.org ([62.128.131.81]:12253 "EHLO willow.ijichi.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750848AbWDSJsg (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Apr 2006 05:48:36 -0400 Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: "Randy.Dunlap" Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Frido Ferdinand ----- Randy.Dunlap wrote: > On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 13:59:05 +0000 (UTC) Frido Ferdinand wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > How can i see that PIIX is either from libata or the usual IDE > drivers. I have > > both enabled in the kernel but not sure which takes presedence, will > the drives > > show up as /dev/sda ? disks used are non-sata/normal ide disks. > > If both are built into the kernel (=y and not modules), legacy > IDE drivers take precedence since ide/ is ahead of scsi/ in > drivers/Makefile (libata drivers are in scsi/). > > I have no idea about precedence if you are using initrd or initramfs. > > And if legacy ide and scsi are both modules, you won't boot... > (without using initrd or initramfs). if I have both ahci and ata_piix modules in initrd (as is the case in most distros), is there any way of passing a parameter to the kernel to tell it which one i want? ahci seems to take preference on my ICH6M but the ata_piix module works better. dom > > --- > ~Randy > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" > in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html