On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 12:54:58PM -0700, [email protected] wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Alan Cox wrote:
> >I wouldn't try dividing those by pata v sata. You'll cause all sorts of
> >problems in the process because of PATA-SATA and SATA-PATA bridges.
>
> if you use a PATA-SATA bridge (IDE drive SATA controller), it would look
> to the system like a SATA drive and be addressed and enumerated as SATA.
But you don't know where the bridge is. It might be on the drive's
board, it might be an explicit enclosure, or it might be on the
motherboard. Each of those scenarios is going to have a different user
expectation.
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