Re: PATA drivers queued for 2.6.19

[Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@aitel.hist.no>]

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.
>   
Udev fixes this for most filesystems - except / which is cruical.
With / on raid-1 this is not a problem, as md autodetect will
assemble the arrays whether they are on ide or scsi.
But anyone with / on a partition can't easily switch
between sda/hda unless they also use an initrd.  The kernel
itself does not seem to support partition by label. :-(

Helge Hafting

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