On Saturday 17 March 2007, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > PATA ports live in separate functions with different programming
> > > interfaces.  pata_jmicron and ide jmicron drivers can drive only the
> > > PATA part.
> 
> This isn't actually true. The IDE jmicron driver can drive both the PATA
> and the SATA parts in legacy mode. It cannot drive the SATA part in AHCI
> mode.

Yes but the quoted sentence is missing the full context:

> When libata is configured, the device is configured such that SATA and
> PATA ports live in separate functions with different programming
> interfaces.  pata_jmicron and ide jmicron drivers can drive only the
> PATA part.

when libata is configured jmicron is _always_ programmed for native mode

Bart
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