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Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 16:16:21 +0200
From: Imre Gergely <imre.gergely@astral.ro>
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To: Erik Mouw <erik@harddisk-recovery.com>
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Subject: Re: disabling libata
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Erik Mouw wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 03:40:22PM +0200, Imre Gergely wrote:
>> i have a SATA hardisk, and am using FC4 with default kernel
>> (2.6.14-1.1644_FC4). i was wondering if it's possible to tell the kernel to use
>> the old ATA driver with SATA support instead of libata, for my harddisk to
>> appear as hdX, and not sdX.
> 
> Why would you want to do that? SATA are driven by libata and the disks
> turn up as SCSI devices. There's no way around that (yet).
> 

if i recompile the kernel, and leave out the libata part, and compile in
support for SATA, under ATA, the harddisks turn up as normal IDE devices (ie
hde, hdf, etc). i would like that without recompiling. if it's possible of course.

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