From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: libata and PATA devices Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 12:42:46 -0400 Message-ID: <42FE2306.4090905@pobox.com> 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> <42FB853E.4070100@rtr.ca> <42FB889F.50607@pobox.com> <1123789132.4422.30.camel@localhost.localdomain> <42FBB33D.8050003@pobox.com> <1123932640.4378.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> <42FE12D6.1070600@pobox.com> <42FE181E.10003@dtbb.net> <42FE1869.2030800@pobox.com> <1123949123.11048.19.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:40112 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932194AbVHMQmv (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Aug 2005 12:42:51 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1123949123.11048.19.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Erik Slagter Cc: Tyler , Mark Lord , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Erik Slagter wrote: > On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 11:57 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >>Tyler wrote: >> >>>Jeff, I think he stated in an earlier post to the list, the model number >>>of the drive, and it is in fact a PATA drive... verified by checking >>>fujitsu's website. Or are you just saying that it "shows up as sata" by >>>coming up as /dev/sda since its connected to a PATA port on a sata >>>combined controller? >> >>The SATA controller thinks its SATA. > > > That, I already noticed a long time ago. The question is, is libata > correct in thinking this? libata just reports what the controller reports. If the controller says its SATA, that what I have to run with. A lot of devices are bridged, so seeing a PATA device connected via SATA bus to a SATA controller is not uncommon. Jeff