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Subject: Re: libata in 2.4.24?
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Samuel Flory <sflory@rackable.com> writes:

>    What chipset are you using?  Assumming that hda is your sata drive. What are
> the results of the following "hdarm -t /dev/hda" "hdparm -dvi /dev/hda"   The
> ICH5 chipset is the only chipset I've found that works well without libata.

Ah, my motherboard is in fact an ICH5 I believe.
Incidentally my kernel is actually 2.4.23-pre4.

Is there any documentation about what libata is and what it does differently
from the stock kernel? Why is it being developed separately instead of as a
set of new drivers in the kernel like normal? 

-- 
greg