From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: libata and PATA devices
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 10:43:41 +0900
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  Hello, Andreas.


Andreas Kl=F6ckner wrote:
> Hey Jeff, all,
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> I was wondering why ATA_ENABLE_PATA and ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI are #undef'e=
d in=20
> include/linux/libata.h by default, since reverting them to #define's =
was the=20
> only way to make the ata-piix driver detect my CDROM on my new shiny =
ThinkPad=20
> (Intel Corp. 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller). I would assume that m=
ost=20
> people would want this. The drive worked out of the box on Ubuntu, so=
 I=20
> assume that their vendor patch includes this anyway.
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> Is there a specific reason that these are disabled? Are there any bad=
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> consequences that I'm not aware of? Only reading the source really re=
vealed=20
> that this was the way to get my CD-ROM to work.

  SATA ATAPI support still has some issues, but as you can read from th=
e=20
following post, libata is almost there now.

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=3Dlinux-kernel&m=3D112261379120567&w=3D=
2

  I don't know much about PATA support.  All I know is that ICH's seem=20
to generate a lot of noise in this mailing list w/ its legacy, combined=
,=20
ahci and whatever modes and no one setting seems to satisfy all.  (If=20
anyone knows more about it, please fill in here.)

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tejun