From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751081AbVIWCY0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Sep 2005 22:24:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751124AbVIWCYZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Sep 2005 22:24:25 -0400 Received: from thorn.pobox.com ([208.210.124.75]:23989 "EHLO thorn.pobox.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751081AbVIWCYZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Sep 2005 22:24:25 -0400 Message-ID: <4333674D.3070502@rtr.ca> Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 22:24:13 -0400 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050728 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Libata for parallel ATA controllers References: <1127408726.18840.126.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1127408726.18840.126.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote: > > Status info and patches are at > > http://zeniv.linux.org.uk/~alan/IDE > > Enjoy but remember this is very early code and don't use it for > production! And especially keep in mind, that libata has practically *no* built-in error-handling or recovery mechanisms yet. If a drive gets into a "reset me to recover" state, then libata just might require a reboot to recover, whereas the IDE subsystem will usually try a reset operation at some point. Not a problem with modern, mostly bug-free hardware (eg. most SATA), but this could be an issue for some PATA interfaces. Cheers