William Hooper wrote:
Since most SATA hard drives currently are bridged PATA drives, does it really matter?
3w driver doesn't use the new LiNUX libata subsystem.
And this is a bad thing? The 3ware driver is hell of a lot more mature than libata. (In fact it's got better Linux support than most scsi raid controllers.) I'm not saying the libata driver is a piece of crap, but author freely claims it's a work in progress.
-- There is no such thing as obsolete hardware. Merely hardware that other people don't want. (The Second Rule of Hardware Acquisition) Sam Flory <sflory@xxxxxxxxxxxx>