From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Lord Subject: Re: libata and PATA devices Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 10:10:17 -0400 Message-ID: <42F8B949.6070004@rtr.ca> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from cpu1185.adsl.bellglobal.com ([207.236.110.166]:41737 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932544AbVHIOKQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2005 10:10:16 -0400 In-Reply-To: <42F8B41C.4040408@rtr.ca> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Cc: Erik Slagter , Jeff Garzik Mark Lord 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. > > This REALLY ought to be on by default now, Jeff. > Especially since the default is to NOT work at all.. Note: I'm refering to the existing PATA ATAPI support in libata here, not the forthcoming SATA ATAPI support! The PATA ATAPI works now -- perhaps it could be turned on by default while efforts continue to implement support for SATA ATAPI devices. Cheers