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Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 09:23:14 -0800
From: "Barry K. Nathan" <barryn@pobox.com>
To: Erik Mouw <erik@harddisk-recovery.com>
Subject: Re: disabling libata
Cc: Imre Gergely <imre.gergely@astral.ro>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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On 2/10/06, Erik Mouw <erik@harddisk-recovery.com> wrote:
> 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).

"Yet"? I haven't been following things closely enough, but I got the
impression that the long-term plan was something like this:

1. Move all the IDE drivers over to libata (Alan Cox has a patch to do
this, at least part of that patch is in -mm, and I'm already running
this flawlessly on one of my systems -- it's not debugged yet, but
none of the bugs happen to hit me). Yes, this means *all* ATA hard
drives become /dev/sd*, not just SATA.

2. Reorganize the Kconfig menus so that ATA stuff is no longer a
subsection of SCSI.

3. Rename /dev/sd* to /dev/disk*.

Of course, I could be mistaken (in which case, please feel free to correct me).
--
-Barry K. Nathan <barryn@pobox.com>
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