>>I just pulled the "pata-drivers" branch of libata-dev.git into the
>>"upstream" branch, which means that Alan's libata PATA driver collection
>>is now queued for 2.6.19.
>>
>>Testing-wise, these PATA drivers have been Andrew Morton's -mm tree for
>>many months. Community-wise, no one posted objections to the PATA
>>driver merge plan, when Alan posted it on LKML and linux-ide.
>
>Too friggin' hard to test Alan's stuff for older IDE here, therefore
>ignored so far :( I have some old hardware that Alan is addressing,
>even an old IBM 260MB PCMCIA HDD.
>
>I can't see an easy way to arrange multi-boot with different /etc/fstab
>depending if I'm trying /dev/hdaX or /dev/sdaX. Parallel '/' partitions?
Got udev?
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3802110A_5LR13RN7-partX could be your friend.
>Plus, 2.6.18-rcX fails too early in boot on one machine (p100 IBM 365X)
>for any testing. Suggestions welcome...
dmesg or any log.
Jan Engelhardt
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