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SubjectRe: disabling libata
On 2/10/06, Erik Mouw <erik@harddisk-recovery.com> wrote:
> Why would you want to do that? SATA are driven by libata and the disks
> turn up as SCSI devices. There's no way around that (yet).

"Yet"? I haven't been following things closely enough, but I got the
impression that the long-term plan was something like this:

1. Move all the IDE drivers over to libata (Alan Cox has a patch to do
this, at least part of that patch is in -mm, and I'm already running
this flawlessly on one of my systems -- it's not debugged yet, but
none of the bugs happen to hit me). Yes, this means *all* ATA hard
drives become /dev/sd*, not just SATA.

2. Reorganize the Kconfig menus so that ATA stuff is no longer a
subsection of SCSI.

3. Rename /dev/sd* to /dev/disk*.

Of course, I could be mistaken (in which case, please feel free to correct me).
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-Barry K. Nathan <barryn@pobox.com>
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