From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 9 May 2002 08:38:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 9 May 2002 08:38:09 -0400 Received: from [195.63.194.11] ([195.63.194.11]:10770 "EHLO mail.stock-world.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 9 May 2002 08:38:09 -0400 Message-ID: <3CDA5ED6.9070701@evision-ventures.com> Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 13:34:46 +0200 From: Martin Dalecki User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; pl-PL; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020419 X-Accept-Language: en-us, pl MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Anton Altaparmakov CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Bjorn Wesen , Paul Mackerras , Linus Torvalds , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] IDE 58 In-Reply-To: <20020508111256.27246@smtp.wanadoo.fr> <5.1.0.14.2.20020508192557.0409b1f0@pop.cus.cam.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Uz.ytkownik Anton Altaparmakov napisa?: > At 11:25 08/05/02, Martin Dalecki wrote: > >> Terminology in 2.5: >> We have a host chip set or shortly a host chip. This is implementing the >> ATA interface on the side of the motherboard. >> The host chip is providing two channels. A primary and a secondary >> one. To a channel we can attach two devices, however we use the term >> drive instead in code becouse the termi device is quite overloaded with >> meaning already. The devices are enumerated as units. That's it. >> Far more natural then hwif hwgrp and so on. IDE is the Integrated Device >> Electronic - the microcontroller stuff I don't care that much about. > > > Um, what about the IDE PCI cards which have 4 channels on > them? Like these two: > > Adaptec 2400 4Ch IDE Raid Controller > RocketRaid 404 4Ch ATA133 Raid Host Adaptor They appear as SCSI on the host side.