[ltp] libata PATA drivers on ThinkPad T42

[Joerg Platte]

Am Montag, 26. März 2007 01:35 schrieb azazello:
> FWIW I've been using libata exclusively since 2.6.19 came out and have
> been happy since the migration was very easy (just checked a bunch of
> things in menuconfig and rewrote grub.conf - your userland should need
> zero changes if you use labels) and now hotplug works very well with
> none of the hacks and maintenance hassle of lt_hotswap.
>
> This is on a T40 with a dvdrom and a bunch of ultrabay slim hard drives.

Does that mean that you don't need hacks like lt_hotswap to be able to 
exchange the DVD-Rom and harddisks without losing DMA access?

regards,
Jörg