From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Erik Slagter Subject: Re: libata and PATA devices Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 11:37:31 +0200 Message-ID: <1123753051.4226.22.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <200508071949.03782.inform@tiker.net> <42F6B8CD.4050100@gmail.com> <20050808030239.GA27502@havoc.gtf.org> <1123495856.22328.62.camel@localhost.localdomain> <42F8B41C.4040408@rtr.ca> <42FACCA8.6050408@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-KUqQ/uoV1ugh6jLleXcM" Return-path: Received: from oldconomy.demon.nl ([212.238.217.56]:23693 "EHLO artemis.slagter.name") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932304AbVHKJiO (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Aug 2005 05:38:14 -0400 In-Reply-To: <42FACCA8.6050408@pobox.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Mark Lord , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org --=-KUqQ/uoV1ugh6jLleXcM Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 23:57 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Most current laptops ship with a PATA hard drive, and a PATA > > ATAPI drive. The easiest way to make them usable under Linux-2.6 > > is to patch libata and turn on ATAPI support, using ata_piix. >=20 > No, the best thing to do is use the IDE driver for PATA. That is the=20 > most stable, most well-tested path to ATAPI support at present. > > > This REALLY ought to be on by default now, Jeff. > > Especially since the default is to NOT work at all.. >=20 > Correct, because currently no one should be using libata for PATA support= . You are sort of contradicting yourself. My setup (Dell laptop with ICH6M and PATA harddisk) defaults to using libata for the PATA hardisk. Only with a specific patch (which adds the PCI id to the IDE driver's id list, and which was not quite accepted here) the IDE driver will recognise the ICH6M and use it (and then it works fine). > Turning on ATAPI and PATA support by default will break existing setups. > > The libata code is taking forever to catch up to modern reality, > > mostly because so much of it lives eternally in Jeff's private > > git repository, where only a few people ever exercise the code. >=20 > Exaggeration. We're talking about a single #define here, to enable ATAPI= . How about a simple configure option... --=-KUqQ/uoV1ugh6jLleXcM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBC+xxbJgD/6j32wUYRAutZAJ9Fj62VAzA3s7OVAy3e4cELjI7T/gCfdjnK NgRlqxg5VtcYJkpGna4e8r4= =qnIm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-KUqQ/uoV1ugh6jLleXcM--