Michael Biebl wrote:
>Apparently, other distros like Fedora or Ubuntu, completely disable the old IDE
>subsystem, so they are not hit by this bug.

They are not hit by _this_ bug, but they are hit by bugs like this one:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/307829

There are out there some recent pieces of hardware (like this nvidia chipsets, 
pata_amd module) that have been working like a charm with the "old IDE 
subsystem", but are (still?) not working (yet?) with libata. 

Regards,

Dionisio Martínez Soler




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