From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: no hotplugging support (FIXME) Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 01:40:17 -0600 Message-ID: <49A10161.6060206@gmail.com> References: <499F171D.5020600@verizon.net> <499F52C8.90205@gmail.com> <49A0B1D8.10303@verizon.net> <49A0C8F5.30405@gmail.com> <49A0CFFF.3050806@verizon.net> <49A0D167.9060707@gmail.com> <49A0D74F.1010009@verizon.net> <49A0D7F6.902@gmail.com> <49A0D989.8030106@verizon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from el-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.162.182]:17574 "EHLO el-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751969AbZBVHkV (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Feb 2009 02:40:21 -0500 Received: by el-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id b25so801395elf.1 for ; Sat, 21 Feb 2009 23:40:19 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <49A0D989.8030106@verizon.net> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Todd and Margo Chester Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Todd and Margo Chester wrote: > Robert Hancock wrote: > >> Normally all the ports are AHCI if it's switched into that mode, so it >> shouldn't be an issue. However, you could leave in ata_piix as the >> third entry, so that the system will still boot if it's not in AHCI >> mode properly. There's no real harm in having unnecessary drivers in >> there.. > > Sorry for the thousand questions. Thank you for being so gracious. > > Question: once I boot up, is there a way to tell which drive > is using which driver? You should be able to tell from the bootup dmesg output which driver ends up detecting the ports..