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Raffaele BELARDI wrote: |
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> On 01/07/2013 08:35 AM, Dale wrote: |
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>> As I understand it, /dev/hdxx is no longer |
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>> supported on current kernels. All hard drives are /dev/sdxx and optical |
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>> drives are /dev/sr0(1,2,3,4 etc). |
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> Not true, I'm using /dev/hd for all my PATA HD and DVD drives and |
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> /dev/sd for the SATA HDs. Systems are ~amd64. |
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> At the time /dev/sr was introduced I tried it and had problems on the |
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> DVD burner (I don't recall which ones, maybe just related to the missing |
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> /dev/dvd link) so I decided to stick with the old driver. |
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> Is there any advantage to switch to the SATA driver also for PATA drives? |
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> raffaele |
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Did you see this in menuconfig: |
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< > ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support **(DEPRECATED)** |
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The last entry on the change log I found on my 3.5.3 kernel was this: |
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* 4.61 Jan 22, 2004 - support hardware sector sizes other than 2kB, |
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* Pascal Schmidt <der.eremit@×××××.de> |
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If you look at the ide.txt file, it still shows kernel version 2.6 so it |
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has not been updated to show it is in a series 3 kernel. Since this is |
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depreciated, which generally means no longer maintained, you are using |
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very old drivers that are no longer maintained. According to the |
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changelog, it has not been touched since 2004. |
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I would think one huge advantage to switching would be drivers that are |
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maintained. It may work but what if it has a problem that you don't see |
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yet? |
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I'm sure there are people on this list that are MUCH more familiar with |
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kernels that can answer your question with even more details but I found |
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that in less than five minutes on my own system. I didn't even need |
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google. So, unless some other more knowledgeable kernel guru comes |
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along, I would suggest you start using drivers that are not so |
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outdated. I only have a regular desktop and my life doesn't rely on it |
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but I would not use drivers that far out of date that are marked |
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depreciated. I certainly wouldn't when newer and maintained drivers are |
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so easily available in the same kernel. |
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Hope that helps. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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