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G.I.Josh

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Registered: 2004-09-03

Posts: 10

Do generic ata drivers work on all ata drives? sata? atapi?

Does the generic ata driver work on all ata devices?  Does sata for sata devices, and atapi for atapi ones?  Are there any other common devices that one driver works on all?  Thanks,

Josh

steveed

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From: State College, PA USA

Registered: 2004-07-25

Posts: 25

Re: Do generic ata drivers work on all ata drives? sata? atapi?

I think unless you are using raid then you don't really need to worry about any special driver for sata or parallel ata drives.  At least on the linux systems that I have with sata, one arch and one redhat as, no special modules are loaded.  You will need the chipset driver but that of course is either compiled into the kernel or as a module and it is automatically loaded. I am not sure if that answers your question, but hey I tried.
-Stephen

G.I.Josh

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Registered: 2004-09-03

Posts: 10

Re: Do generic ata drivers work on all ata drives? sata? atapi?

Thanks.  That answers it for the most part.  But do you meen the mobo chipset, or do hdd's have a seperate one?

banana989

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Registered: 2004-06-03

Posts: 60

Re: Do generic ata drivers work on all ata drives? sata? atapi?

It might be worth noting that for SATA, you should be booting a SCSI kernel.

kakabaratruskia

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From: Santiago, Chile

Registered: 2003-08-24

Posts: 596

Re: Do generic ata drivers work on all ata drives? sata? atapi?

I have sata, and the ide kernel works fine... the only thing is that the disc is recogniced as /dev/sda.

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steveed

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From: State College, PA USA

Registered: 2004-07-25

Posts: 25

Re: Do generic ata drivers work on all ata drives? sata? atapi?

Thanks.  That answers it for the most part.  But do you meen the mobo chipset, or do hdd's have a seperate one?

The chipset of the hdd is irrelevant, the kernel will load the correct chipset drivers for the mobo.  You might have somethings with nforce2 that require additional drivers, such as sound or whatever, not sure don't have one.

I also use SATA but I have a scsi kernel, and they show up as sda.