On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 12:54:58PM -0700, david@xxxxxxx wrote: > On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Alan Cox wrote: > >I wouldn't try dividing those by pata v sata. You'll cause all sorts of > >problems in the process because of PATA-SATA and SATA-PATA bridges. > > if you use a PATA-SATA bridge (IDE drive SATA controller), it would look > to the system like a SATA drive and be addressed and enumerated as SATA. But you don't know where the bridge is. It might be on the drive's board, it might be an explicit enclosure, or it might be on the motherboard. Each of those scenarios is going to have a different user expectation. -- 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-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
