Re: Libata for parallel ATA controllers

[Mark Lord]

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

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