Am Mittwoch, 9. Januar 2013, 10:57:09 schrieb Raffaele BELARDI: > 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
because every day there are changes in the kernel that might affect those old, deprecated and mostly unmaintained drivers. It is pretty certain that you will run into problems. -- #163933
