On Saturday 17 March 2007, Alan Cox wrote: > > > PATA ports live in separate functions with different programming > > > interfaces. pata_jmicron and ide jmicron drivers can drive only the > > > PATA part. > > This isn't actually true. The IDE jmicron driver can drive both the PATA > and the SATA parts in legacy mode. It cannot drive the SATA part in AHCI > mode. Yes but the quoted sentence is missing the full context: > When libata is configured, the device is configured such that SATA and > PATA ports live in separate functions with different programming > interfaces. pata_jmicron and ide jmicron drivers can drive only the > PATA part. when libata is configured jmicron is _always_ programmed for native mode Bart - 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
