On Fri, February 29, 2008 1:29 pm, Al Tobey wrote: > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> But what is its VALUE?! > > The old IDE drivers are quite crufty. The new hotness (libata) > re-uses a lot more kernel infrastructure and actually ends up having > PATA and SATA accessed through the same interfaces. This makes the > kernel even more consistent, and makes our (sysadmins') jobs much > easier, since we don't have to accommodate two different types of > device. It's all SCSI now ;) > > No more ide-scsi (remember that horror?) or trying to figure out if > your new SATA adapter is going to show up as /dev/hda or /dev/sda. > It's just /dev/sda. >
Well, we loves out sysadmins. For me, it means my USB devices that I used to map in /etc/fstab now wander and have to be tracked down each insertion. Boo hoo :'-( -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
