On 2007/11/03 14:10 (GMT) Alan Cox apparently typed: > I don't think there is anything useful in old IDE that isn't in the new. You mean besides being able to access all existing disk partitions? Google can show you I'm not the only multiboot upgrader with far more than 14 filesystems per disk. The standard drivers should be able to provide access to every standard partition fdisk/cfdisk/sfdisk or any other conforming partitioning tool is able to create. LVM should not be prerequisite to using SATA for those who need many low level logical disk subdivisions. Disk /dev/hda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 13 104391 17 Hidden HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 * 14 14 8032+ a OS/2 Boot Manager /dev/hda3 15 46 257040 6 FAT16 /dev/hda4 48 30401 243818505 5 Extended /dev/hda5 48 73 208813+ 83 Linux /dev/hda6 74 188 923706 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/hda7 189 800 4915858+ 83 Linux /dev/hda8 1108 1108 8001 1 FAT12 /dev/hda9 1109 1140 257008+ 6 FAT16 /dev/hda10 1142 1243 819283+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda11 1269 1523 2048256 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda12 1575 1693 955836 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda13 1694 2012 2562336 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda14 2014 2217 1638598+ 83 Linux /dev/hda15 2218 2568 2819376 83 Linux /dev/hda16 2569 3486 7373803+ 83 Linux /dev/hda17 3487 4379 7172991 83 Linux /dev/hda18 4380 4409 240943+ 83 Linux /dev/hda19 4410 4549 1124518+ 83 Linux /dev/hda20 4550 5187 5124703+ 83 Linux /dev/hda21 18234 18845 4915858+ 83 Linux /dev/hda22 18846 19457 4915858+ 83 Linux /dev/hda23 20383 20391 72261 83 Linux /dev/hda24 20392 30401 80405293+ 83 Linux > However libata PATA support is not all new code, its built on and from > the old IDE driver code. Similarly there is stuff recently going on in > drivers/ide that is then going into drivers/ata (eg the IVB blacklists). > The big issue with drivers/ide is the core code which simply can't cope > with SMP or modern hardware designs. don't consider drivers/ide > anything but "legacy" but lots of older systems use it and its important > it stays maintained. Bart is doing whats actually a pretty thankless job > - working on maintaining stuff for the short term knowing it has no real > future. -- " A patriot without religion . . . is as great a paradox, as an honest man without the fear of God." John Adams Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ - 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
