>>I just pulled the "pata-drivers" branch of libata-dev.git into the >>"upstream" branch, which means that Alan's libata PATA driver collection >>is now queued for 2.6.19. >> >>Testing-wise, these PATA drivers have been Andrew Morton's -mm tree for >>many months. Community-wise, no one posted objections to the PATA >>driver merge plan, when Alan posted it on LKML and linux-ide. > >Too friggin' hard to test Alan's stuff for older IDE here, therefore >ignored so far :( I have some old hardware that Alan is addressing, >even an old IBM 260MB PCMCIA HDD. > >I can't see an easy way to arrange multi-boot with different /etc/fstab >depending if I'm trying /dev/hdaX or /dev/sdaX. Parallel '/' partitions? Got udev? /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3802110A_5LR13RN7-partX could be your friend. >Plus, 2.6.18-rcX fails too early in boot on one machine (p100 IBM 365X) >for any testing. Suggestions welcome... dmesg or any log. Jan Engelhardt -- -- VGER BF report: H 0 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
