Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:13:44 -0500 (EST)
From: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>
To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Switching from (deprecated) IDE driver -> SATA (PATA support)
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On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:

> On Sunday 25 January 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote:
>> When switching (removing IDE support) in favor of the new PATA support
>> under the SATA menu, is there any best practice/or method of knowing what
>> the new root hdd will be upon reboot?
>>
>> Example:
>> If I have 10 sata disks and 2 IDE disks on various cards/controllers, how
>> do I know /dev/hda will become /dev/sda?  In one test on a system I have
>> here, /dev/hda became /dev/sdb2 after reboot, not an issue if the box is
>> local, but if the box is remote, how do you cope with this?  I ask now
>> because some IDE drivers have been removed (nvidia I believe? in 2.6.28)
>> and I cannot upgrade the kernel anymore unless I move to the
>> PATA-supported SATA driver, but I have no idea what the root disk will be
>> after a reboot and there is a high probability it will not come back after
>> a reboot..
>
> Hmmm?  That's news to me and I wonder where did you hear that?
>
> The only driver that got removed recently was HPT34X (for very, very
> old HPT controllers) which was broken for ages.  In reality we are
> adding new IDE host drivers and not removing them.
>
> In 2.6.28 we got support for TX4938 and TX4939 chipsets.  2.6.29-rc1
> contains a new driver for IT8172 and 2.6.29-final will hopefully have
> drivers for AT91 and CS5536 chipsets.  Moreover except CS5536 all of
> above chipsets are not support in other ways under Linux...
>
> While we are at it 2.6.29 also got a whole bunch of updates to the core
> IDE code -- this includes complete rewrite of locking scheme (which
> is now superior to some other solutions), latency improvements for IRQ
> handling and port of ide-cd over generic ATAPI support (not to mention
> whole stack of bugfixes and cleanups).
>
> Thanks,
> Bart
>
> PS as usual I encourage people to try different solutions and choose
> whatever works best for them (please also remember that giving feedback
> is very important if you want to see some things improved).
>

Correction, it was the HPT controller as you noted, broken? Was working 
for me in 2.6.26.3 :)

CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HPT34X=y
# CONFIG_HPT34X_AUTODMA is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HPT366=y

Justin.
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