Nice looking 'disk array'

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 10:48:24PM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> Linux's IDE stack has a bad reputation.  So bad, that SATA uses a new
> stack, as I understand it.  SCSI is different too.  I have heard lots
> of stories that give me doubts about this stuff.  One long-term
> problem is that error conditions don't flow up the stack properly.
> Maybe a BSD system would be a safer choice.  I don't know -- I'm
> talking about reputation.

In fact as of 2.6.18 (as far as I recall), there is a parallel ata
interface using the same ata stack as the serial ata drivers use to
replace the old ide subsystem.  As a result if you use the new drivers
(the old ones are still there too) you get all your disk showing up as
/dev/sd*

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