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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