Linux kernel 2.6.19 ATA drive support boobytrap

[tleslie]

I read that some mobo's are coming out with sata drivers (controls) in
bios/firmware (which is the norm) but no longer pata support, that is
now the responsibility of OS loaded drivers, no different then say for a
RAID card.
So it is a new thing, and it has already caused issues with 
making live-cd/dvd useless on those mobo's unless the 
live distro has the new drivers.

-tl

On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 00:08 -0500, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> Walter Dnes wrote:
> > #
> > # Serial ATA (prod) and Parallel ATA (experimental) drivers
> > #
> >   
> Isn't there something wrong with this picture?
> 
> Serial ATA is the new(er) technology -- "parallel ATA" is just a new
> name for what we've always called IDE, whose support under Linux I
> always know to be mature and not at all experimental.
> 
> - Evan
> 
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