On 07/04/2015 17:11, Peter Lieven wrote: > > I'm not sure at what kernel version the switch is, but newer kernels use > > some > > code shared with the newer SATA world (libata?) where as older kernels had > > separate IDE code, so the behaviour of the two can be quite different. > > Thats a good point. I will check what the kernels have. > I remember that there was sth like a problem with error handling in > the old drivers? Paolo, you worked a lot on IDE lately. Do you remember?
No, I don't know... I didn't work a lot on IDE, those patches were all several years old and finally John shepherded them in. :) Still, what David says is correct. At least RHEL5's 2.6.18 defaulted to the old IDE drivers (/dev/hdXNN). Paolo
