From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Helge Hafting Subject: Re: PATA drivers queued for 2.6.19 Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 15:26:54 +0200 Message-ID: <44FD7B1E.7020102@aitel.hist.no> References: <44FC0779.9030405@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from embla.aitel.hist.no ([158.38.50.22]:39861 "HELO embla.aitel.hist.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S964989AbWIENaN (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Sep 2006 09:30:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Grant Coady , Jeff Garzik , "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" , Linux Kernel , Alan Cox , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Jan Engelhardt wrote: >>> I just pulled the "pata-drivers" branch of libata-dev.git into the >>> "upstream" branch, which means that Alan's libata PATA driver collection >>> is now queued for 2.6.19. >>> >>> Testing-wise, these PATA drivers have been Andrew Morton's -mm tree for >>> many months. Community-wise, no one posted objections to the PATA >>> driver merge plan, when Alan posted it on LKML and linux-ide. >>> >> Too friggin' hard to test Alan's stuff for older IDE here, therefore >> ignored so far :( I have some old hardware that Alan is addressing, >> even an old IBM 260MB PCMCIA HDD. >> >> I can't see an easy way to arrange multi-boot with different /etc/fstab >> depending if I'm trying /dev/hdaX or /dev/sdaX. Parallel '/' partitions? >> > > Got udev? > > /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3802110A_5LR13RN7-partX could be your friend. > Udev fixes this for most filesystems - except / which is cruical. With / on raid-1 this is not a problem, as md autodetect will assemble the arrays whether they are on ide or scsi. But anyone with / on a partition can't easily switch between sda/hda unless they also use an initrd. The kernel itself does not seem to support partition by label. :-( Helge Hafting