On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 08:53, Mark Hahn wrote: > > I haven't spent much time looking into the SATA stuff yet - but it seems > > theres 2 camps - one which makes the drives look like IDE drives and one > > which makes the look like SCSI.. I did an install on a Dell last week > > sort of but not really. sata hardware can be shoehorned into the older > pata-oriented infrastructure by ignoring some features. the real problem > is that the traditional ide driver framework is not exactly beautiful > on the inside, and some of those ignored features are pretty important. > I believe that the general consensus is to move towards the scsi stack, > though this doesn't mean the ide stack will disappear any time soon, > if ever. I wouldn't expect 3Gb sata to ever appear in the ide stack, > or for hotplug to work right, or command queueing or device multiplexing. > this is not so much a criticism of the ide stack, but rather an evaluation > that it's easier to build onto the scsi framework. Perhaps this is the way it is but my experience is that 2.6.x kernels recognize SATA as /dev/hdx (ide) and 2.4.x recognize them as /dev/sdx (scsi). -- John Lange - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
