[Mageia-dev] Latest kernels vs IDE/libata

Thu Mar 22 21:35:26 CET 2012

20.03.2012 10:50, JA Magallón kirjoitti:
+> Hi all...
+> 
+> I have a queston about an issue that should be decided by the 'thinkin
+> minds' in the distro, that probably have have wider sight than me...
+> 
+> I have some boxes with ide disks, that long tine ago were driven by
+> the libata subsystem, as the pure PATA susbsytem is being slowly
+> deprecated. Perhaps the kernel driver loading priorities have changed,
+> perhaps before IDE was not builtin into kernel.
+> But now, to get my IDE drove again by libata, I have to blacklist
+> generic-ide and company.
+> So I had to put a file ide.conf into modules.d like:
+> 
+> blacklist ide-generic
+> blacklist ide-pci-generic
+> blacklist piix
+> 
+> so ata_piix drives my ICH5 again.
+> 
+> I think it is desirable, libata works much better than old IDE driver,
+> all your drives are sdX, instead of mixing sdX for SATA and hdX for PATA,
+> etc...
+> 
+> Would it be desirable to have an ide-blacklist.conf file just to go
+> migrating all working-ok-with-libata controllers to libata, and only
+> leave pure PATA drivers for non supported oldies ?
+
+I'm not sure how it worked previously (hack in mkinitrd, or luck?), but
+if we don't want to disable the IDE drivers completely, attached is a
+kernel patch that makes modprobe load ATA drivers before IDE drivers.
+
+Thomas?
+
+-- 
+Anssi Hannula
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