On Monday 17 December 2007 20:15:09 SJS wrote: > begin quoting Michael O'Keefe as of Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 10:32:12AM -0800: > > SJS wrote: > > >begin quoting Neil Schneider as of Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 06:07:57AM -0800: > > >>SJS wrote: > > >>>That's exactly what I mean. Requiring a driver renders the > > >>> "otherwise" clause meaningless at best, disingenuous at worst. > > >> > > >>You have to have a kernel driver for ide, scsi, sata, sas, so why would > > >>RAID be any different? > > > > > >I don't have a kernel driver for seagate, maxtor, or western digital. > > >Why not? > > > > Um yes you do, it's the IDE or SCSI or SATA driver for your root device > > which is typically compiled into the kernel so it can boot off that > > device. > > You missed the point. > > Seagate makes drives. Maxtor makes drives. If I pull a Seagate drive, I > can drop in a Maxtor. >
Umm, actually Seagate makes Maxtor drives, they bought them a couple of months ago and distribute Maxtor drives as their no-frills label now. > No driver change. Well, it's all coded into one ATA module so it sums up all ATA drives, thing is it doesnt always do that like pointed out above: new drives pass as ATA/sATA/whatever if they only adhere to the standard by 99.9%. The missing 0.1 might render the drive useless in Linux unless there's an update. Got to admit this never occured to me, usually new chipsets with missing modules were the showstoppers, but it's possible. Not much of a deal in the desktop/end user market since there's only 4 manufactureres left, Seagate, Samsung, Hitachi and WD. Guess after 20+ years they have their sh!t together. (Uh.. was this list supposed to be kept family friendly..? I forgot.) Dex -- -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d--(+)@ s-:+ a- C++++ UL++ P+>++ L+++>++++ E-- W++ N o? K- w--(---) !O M+ V- PS+ PE Y++ PGP t++(---)@ 5 X+(++) R+(++) tv--(+)@ b++(+++) DI+++ D- G++ e* h>++ r* y? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ http://www.stop1984.com http://www.againsttcpa.com -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
