From: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Joe Blow <joeblow341@hotmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Promise 20378 + 2.6.0-test10 + libata patch 1
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 22:20:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031202052015.GA28551@codepoet.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FCC014A.7050109@pobox.com>
On Mon Dec 01, 2003 at 10:04:42PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Joe Blow wrote:
> >
> >>From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
> >>
> >>Nope, libata Promise driver only supports Serial ATA.
> >
> >
> >Bummer. Will it ever support PATA?
>
> No plans.
What exactly is needed to get got SATA and PATA support
comparable to the driver provided by promise? Would it be
possible to adapt the existing promise PATA IDE driver to drive
the PATA port, while the libata Promise driver handles the SATA
ports. Or would a new driver be needed?
How would the two drivers share the same PCI device?
-Erik
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-02 5:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-02 2:52 Promise 20378 + 2.6.0-test10 + libata patch 1 Joe Blow
2003-12-02 3:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-02 5:20 ` Erik Andersen [this message]
2004-03-23 2:04 ` Jeff Garzik
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2003-12-03 3:10 Joe Blow
2003-12-03 3:43 ` Erik Andersen
2003-12-02 3:24 Joe Blow
2003-12-02 5:29 ` Paul Misner
2003-11-30 21:11 Joe Blow
2003-12-01 3:22 ` Jeff Garzik
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