* Michael Prokop <[email protected]> [20090402 11:28]: > the grml team wants to collect feedback regarding the recent switch > from PATA to LIBATA. PATA? LIBATA?
> * PATA provides the old IDE subsystem (/dev/hdX), considered as > legacy code. > * LIBATA is the new subsystem (/dev/sdX) with new features, but some > old IDE systems might not work with it. > Please participate in the poll! => http://doodle.com/vr75tpe4a2p6mwvt Oh my dear... I meant *IDE* (as in CONFIG_IDE) vs. LIBATA/PATA of course. No idea what was riding me... (thanks to maks for the hint) - sorry for that! :-/ In case you got a mail and are confused what just happend: the question mark in the first column of the poll just visualises that the option was adjusted by the poll admin (that's me). I just replaced the word "PATA" with "CONFIG_IDE" (no further changes - promissed :)) - and this caused to mark this option with the '?' on every single vote (sorry, I wasn't aware of that when editing, yeah not my best day ;-)). But as all of you got the idea anyway and I've the answer I was looking for I just closed the poll. The overall result: 40 participants 38 votes for 'Stay with LIBATA' and just two persons without answering this option overall. So not a *single* vote for falling back to the old subsystem code. This is great! :) JFTR: I made a screenshot of the vote which visualises the result of the poll before I edited it (regarding PATA/CONFIG_IDE): http://grml.org/screeni/gkrellShoot_09-04-06_154033.png We've 35 votes for 'grml 2008.11 boots fine on my system(s)', 5 votes without answering this question. Just 3 votes for 'grml 2008.11 does not boot on my system(s)'. I'd love to get hardware information from those people so I can contact the LIBATA maintainers with according information! Now, what's the benefit from using LIBATA? Mainly (improved) support for Native Command Queueing (NCQ) and hotplugging - check out: http://linux-ata.org/ http://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page As Ubuntu, RedHat/Fedora/... chose to go with LIBATA-only and get rid of old CONFIG_IDE as well I think it's the way to go in the long run. And if you encounter any problems: *please* let us know! Thanks to all of you who voted! regards, -mika- -- http://grml.org/ # Linux for texttool-users and sysadmins http://wiki.grml.org/ # share your knowledge http://grml.supersized.org/ # the grml development weblog #grml @ irc.freenode.org # meet us on irc
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