Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-08T07:29:23Z

On Sep 8 2007 09:05, Stefan Richter wrote:
>config ATA
> [...]
>
>comment "Controller drivers"
>
>[...low-level drivers go here...]
>
>comment "Storage device drivers"
>
>config ATA_SD
> tristate "SATA/PATA HDD support (via SCSI disk support)"
> depends on ATA
> select BLK_DEV_SD
> help
> 'SCSI disk support' is required to access SATA HDDs. It is
> also necessary for parallel ATA (IDE) HDDs if you use the
> experimental parallel ATA option.
>
> You can say Y or M here to select SCSI disk support, or you
> can do so in the 'SCSI device support' section.
>
>[...ditto for CD/DVD-ROMs, tapes, and generic support...]

And what uses ATA_SD, or is the user supposed to manually enable it?

Jan
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