Subject: Re: [RFR] a new SCSI driver
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: john@grabjohn.com,
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On Sul, 2003-05-25 at 10:35, Russell King wrote:
> Rubbish.  PIO mode ATA will be around for some years to come - there
> is just too much invested there (especially in the embedded world) for
> it to vanish this quickly.  For example, think about compact flash cards,
> many of which are still driven using PIO mode accesses in todays PDAs.

For CF IDE you might as well drop the IDE layer too and write a small
custom CF-IDE driver if you are doing heavily embedded stuff. 

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