From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6970138391 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2013 10:04:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5F00D21C2AA; Wed, 9 Jan 2013 10:03:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eu1sys200aog120.obsmtp.com (eu1sys200aog120.obsmtp.com [207.126.144.149]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3BFE221C29B for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2013 10:01:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from beta.dmz-eu.st.com ([164.129.1.35]) (using TLSv1) by eu1sys200aob120.postini.com ([207.126.147.11]) with SMTP ID DSNKUO1AA8cs2B/x5R/zM5tvUir2UVx1Nc40@postini.com; Wed, 09 Jan 2013 10:01:41 UTC Received: from zeta.dmz-eu.st.com (zeta.dmz-eu.st.com [164.129.230.9]) by beta.dmz-eu.st.com (STMicroelectronics) with ESMTP id 4823613D for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2013 10:01:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from Webmail-eu.st.com (safex1hubcas2.st.com [10.75.90.16]) by zeta.dmz-eu.st.com (STMicroelectronics) with ESMTP id 799832B92 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2013 10:01:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from SAFEX1MAIL4.st.com ([10.75.90.10]) by SAFEX1HUBCAS2.st.com ([10.75.90.16]) with mapi; Wed, 9 Jan 2013 11:01:37 +0100 From: Raffaele BELARDI To: "gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org" Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 10:57:09 +0100 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] PATA vs SATA kernel driver (was: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore) Thread-Topic: [gentoo-user] PATA vs SATA kernel driver (was: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore) Thread-Index: Ac3uUFA4kcolzNVMTR2XA4a+Gkt50g== Message-ID: <50ED3EF5.1090800@st.com> References: <50ED1969.3010309@st.com> <50ED3205.5050803@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <50ED3205.5050803@gmail.com> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0 SeaMonkey/2.14.1 x-enigmail-version: 1.4.6 acceptlanguage: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Archives-Salt: be016df9-5906-42d2-a101-4b200e872a19 X-Archives-Hash: 2c6f07e8d2333c5da2a16b7a950b8432 On 01/09/2013 10:01 AM, Dale wrote: > < > ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support **(DEPRECATED)** >=20 Yes, I know it is unmaintained and deprecated, I'm looking for a rational reason to move to the SATA driver when the PATA one works well with my old drives. The PATA drives are probably going to die before the PATA driver is moved out of the kernel (if ever) so I might as well wait for the switch till I need new hardware, or not? raffaele=