linux-kernel - Re: Hard drive detection

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Date:	Fri, 04 May 2012 22:51:11 -0400
From:	Mark Lord <kernel@...savvy.com>
To:	Chris Jones <chrisjones@...n.net.au>
CC:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Hard drive detection

On 12-05-04 07:30 PM, Chris Jones wrote:
..
> Thanks Mark. That's exactly what I was looking for. And are both PATA
> and SATA internal drives both located in drivers/ata?
..

Yes.
But historically, PATA drives were handled by the original IDE drivers
that I worked on in the mid-1990s.  That code is in linux/drivers/ide,
but we're trying hard to phase it out.  The code in linux/drivers/ata
(aka. "libata") handles nearly all of the same PATA stuff and more.

Cheers
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