Re: PATA drivers queued for 2.6.19

[Tomasz Torcz <zdzichu@irc.pl>]

On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 02:07:29PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >>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.

  Almost. It would alternate between "ata-" and "scsi-".

-- 
Tomasz Torcz                Only gods can safely risk perfection,
zdzichu@irc.-nie.spam-.pl     it's a dangerous thing for a man.  -- Alia

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