Am 07.04.2015 um 17:14 schrieb Paolo Bonzini: > > On 07/04/2015 17:11, Peter Lieven wrote: >>> I'm not sure at what kernel version the switch is, but newer kernels use >>> some >>> code shared with the newer SATA world (libata?) where as older kernels had >>> separate IDE code, so the behaviour of the two can be quite different. >> Thats a good point. I will check what the kernels have. >> I remember that there was sth like a problem with error handling in >> the old drivers? Paolo, you worked a lot on IDE lately. Do you remember? > No, I don't know... I didn't work a lot on IDE, those patches were all > several years old and finally John shepherded them in. :)
Okay, I was thinking you just worked on that code and were the new IDE expert ;-) > > Still, what David says is correct. At least RHEL5's 2.6.18 defaulted to > the old IDE drivers (/dev/hdXNN). I can confirm that its /dev/hdX. Peter
