On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 04:33:29PM +0100, Stefan Smietanowski wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > It is not using scsi emulation. It is using the scsi subsystem in > the linux kernel instead of the ide subsystem. More and more > drivers are being written for "libata". And less and less in this > is actually SATA specific anymore. That is why we are starting > to see drivers that drive both sata and pata (promise for instance > in the libata-dev tree). Also note that if I understand correctly > libata will ultimately not use the scsi subsystem but the block > subsystem (that doesn't really exist yet). The way I see it Thanks for explanation. Hopefully it will happen soon :)
> libata is the new way to do it right, and in which you can fit > any pata and/or sata driver. My personal goal is when we can > have one name-space between scsi and [sp]ata but that's not > here yet with many drivers only existing for the old/normal > ide susbystem, but that might/will change. > That would be a good thing. Especially if cdrecord/smartctl/hdparm was ported to it so that it could use all features of the drive independently of the bus to which it is connected. Thanks Michal Suchanek - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
