Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: SATA support merge in 2.4.27 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:24:09 +0200 |
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Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com> writes:
> Jeff Garzik sent me a SATA update to be merged in 2.4.x. > > A lot of new boxes are shipping with SATA-only disks, and its pretty bad > to not have a "stable" series without such industry-standard support. > > This is the last feature to be merged on 2.4.x, and only because its quite > necessary. > > Any oppositions?
The big problem is that the SATA code will move some disks from /dev/hdX to /dev/sdX (e.g. most disks in modern intel chipsets) And then the boxes don't boot anymore. It's probably a bad idea to merge it.
-Andi
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