Re: 2.6.18-rc1-mm1

[Alan Cox]

Ar Llu, 2006-07-10 am 02:33 +0200, ysgrifennodd J.A. MagallÃn:
> builtin, host detenction seems to go in PCI order but... promise detects
> first the SATA drives. I'm trying to get a way to predict what switchng
> from IDE to libata will do on my boxes, but...

PCI order. Some controllers put the PATA ports before the SATA ones,
some controllers the reverse, some even mix them up according to BIOS
setup. Generally they are doing this so the user can land their
preferred disk type as BIOS disk 0x80 (C:) for booting.

Alan
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