On 8 February 2010 11:09, Andrew Benton <[email protected]> wrote: > Well you must know something I don't. I have 3 computers that will not > boot if I don't use CONFIG_IDE=y > Of course, I use libata on the computers that can use it. But in my > experience it's not true that libata supports all IDE hardware. > > Andy > -- Supposedly, only power macs (i.e. 32-bit ppc) are not supported by libata, everything else ought to work (but, perhaps not any i586 or older machines). As with anything in the kernel, the technically correct answer is painful (post on lkml, be prepared to test and perhaps bisect).
I admit that one of my desktops still uses old IDE - haven't got around to changing it - and I noticed recently that I was able to burn an audio CD on it using cdrdao, but on the machine using libata it failed to open the device (dev/sg, I think). But that's another story and I haven't bothered to investigate further. ĸen -- After tragedy, and farce, "OMG poneys!" -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
