[ltp] t42p ata_piix

U Kuehn linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:55:45 +0100


Joerg Platte wrote:

>> Well, I don't. I just have the minimal (hopefully) support for IDE in
>> the kernel to be able to read CF cards from my digital camera. My disk
>> is recognised as /dev/sda, the cdrom is /dev/sr0. So apparently the ide
>> stuff does not kick in here, as is intendet.
> 
> Is the IDE support really required? For example, my PCMCIA-CF adapter is 
> driven by the pata_pcmcia module and not by the old IDE stuff.
> 
Good question. If it works it should be OK. I will give it a try, maybe
it is really possible to get rid of the ATA/IDE stuff completely.

Cheers,
Ulrich