On 08/02/10 05:04, Simon Geard wrote:
On Sun, 2010-02-07 at 14:42 +0530, Aditya Bankar wrote:
Can The library libata be used during boot time?
Can be, and should be. The Support for SATA option is very old, dating
to when SATA was a new thing - libata was it's replacement, and should
be used
- Original Message
From: Simon Geard delga...@ihug.co.nz
To: lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org
Sent: Mon, 8 February, 2010 10:34:23 AM
Subject: Re: SATA support in Linux kernel's menuconfig
On Sun, 2010-02-07 at 14:42 +0530, Aditya Bankar wrote:
Can The library libata be used
On 08/02/10 12:54, Aditya Bankar wrote:
In lfs we haven't compiled libdata. Thus, I think, we will have to use
Support for SATA. If I compile libdata how do I tell kernel that libdata
must be used for SATA support? Do we need to use bootscripts?
I'm not familiar with libdata. libata is part
On 8 February 2010 11:09, Andrew Benton b3n...@gmail.com 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
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
On 2/8/10, Andrew Benton b3n...@gmail.com wrote:
On 08/02/10 15:04, Ken Moffat wrote:
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
Hi,
While doing make menuconfig, in chapter 8 lfs-6.5, I found the following:
Support for SATA (deprecated; conflicts with libata SATA driver)
I have SATA harddrive. If I don't enable this how would the kernel talk to SATA
drive? Can The library libata be used during boot time?
Thanks,
Aditya
On 07/02/10 09:12, Aditya Bankar wrote:
Hi,
While doing make menuconfig, in chapter 8 lfs-6.5, I found the following:
Support for SATA (deprecated; conflicts with libata SATA driver)
I have SATA harddrive. If I don't enable this how would the kernel talk to
SATA drive?
Use libata, the
On Sun, 2010-02-07 at 14:42 +0530, Aditya Bankar wrote:
Can The library libata be used during boot time?
Can be, and should be. The Support for SATA option is very old, dating
to when SATA was a new thing - libata was it's replacement, and should
be used for all SATA and IDE hardware these
