On 08/02/10 15:04, Ken Moffat wrote: > 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. >
Indeed. I was wrong. They do work with libata. They were older machines that were working fine so I avoided the headache of altering their kernel configs. My first couple of attempts at getting libata to work ended with kernel panics. Not because of the kernel config, but because I forgot to change the grub boot line to /dev/sda (DOH!). So yeah, libata works fine. Sorry for the noise. Libata works better with udev. I don't need custom udev rules for each machine, the default udev rules creates the cdrom symlink pointing at /dev/sr0 which is owned by group cdrom. Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
