On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 10:41:11AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Did you look at SATA alone? No. I don't think I have any pure-SATA machines. I suppose I could disable the drivers for non-SATA and see what happens. > Since SATA does its own scan asynchronously from SCSI itself, doing this > seems of little value. This patch doesn't change AHCI scanning at all, > for example. Its current value lies in allowing SCSI and SATA scans to take place simultaneously; otherwise SATA forces SCSI to finish its scans before it starts. It also allows the SATA asynchronous scan code to become synchronous. -- Intel are signing my paycheques ... these opinions are still mine "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." - 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
