From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] PATA vs SATA kernel driver (was: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore)
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 04:35:06 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50ED47DA.8090909@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50ED3EF5.1090800@st.com>
Raffaele BELARDI wrote:
> On 01/09/2013 10:01 AM, Dale wrote:
>> < > ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support **(DEPRECATED)**
>>
> 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
>
The drivers are NOT maintained IS the reason. What if there is some
sort of bug that you do not know about? That bug is not going to be
fixed because you are not using the correct drivers. They have not been
updated for at least 8 or 9 years. You really think nothing has been
improved in that time? That no bugs have been found? What if they drop
it from the kernel? Are you going to stop upgrading the kernel too? At
some point, you are going to have to update this.
If it was a recent change, then it may be less risky. Given the amount
of time it has not been maintained, you are just asking for trouble,
whatever that may be.
Dale
:-) :-)
--
I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-09 10:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-09 7:16 [gentoo-user] PATA vs SATA kernel driver (was: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore) Raffaele BELARDI
2013-01-09 9:01 ` Dale
2013-01-09 9:32 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-01-09 9:59 ` Dale
2013-01-09 10:24 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-01-09 18:58 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2013-01-09 22:42 ` felix
2013-01-10 21:41 ` Walter Dnes
2013-01-10 22:14 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-01-24 3:42 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2013-01-09 9:57 ` Raffaele BELARDI
2013-01-09 10:35 ` Dale [this message]
2013-01-09 18:59 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
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