Mark Lord wrote:
The big difference here, is that a single SATA controller in a system can have up to eight quasi-independent ports. So when we lock, we block activity on all 8 interfaces, rather than just the one we care about.
...hence the mention of multi-port NICs. Jeff -- 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
