[TriLUG] The new *ata options in the new kernels

[Andrew Perrin]

Unless I've missed it, there's no information there.

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Assistant Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_
University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA
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On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, jason at monsterjam.org wrote:

> usually in the
> /usr/src/linux/Documentation dir theres some info about stuff like that.
> but not sure about which one to use..
>
> Jason
>
> On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 04:01:10PM -0500, Andrew Perrin
> wrote:
>> I downloaded and was picking around the 2.6.20 kernel today, largely
>> because I'd like support for k8temp, the hardware temperature monitor for
>> AMD Athlon64 chips.  There's a new section in the configuration titled:
>>
>>  Serial ATA (prod) and Parallel ATA (experimental) drivers
>>
>> This is distinct from the old ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support, which still
>> exists as well.
>>
>> I can't find much online about this addition. Anybody know the background
>> for the addition? Most importantly, should one use this, the older "ide"
>> drivers, or both for PATA? Why?
>>
>> Thanks-
>> Andy
>>
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>> Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu
>> Assistant Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_
>> University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA
>> New Book: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/178592.ctl
>>
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