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Date: Sat, 5 May 2012 14:00:05 +1000 From: Chris Jones <chrisjones@...n.net.au> To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Cc: Mark Lord <kernel@...savvy.com> Subject: Re: Hard drive detection On Fri, 04 May 2012 22:51:11 -0400 Mark Lord <kernel@...savvy.com> wrote: > 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. > Yeah I remember reading something a while back about all the IDE/PATA support being migrated to the SATA sets and phasing out the legacy IDE stuff. So technically, the old IDE sets could be removed with no negative effect on a modern system? Correct? Regards Chris Jones -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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