[ltp] scsi vs ata ?

Tino Keitel linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:11:31 +0200


On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 06:45:31 -0700, Dan Sawyer wrote:
> All,
>
> Which is the more common mapping for hard drives in current  
> distributions, hda or sda? I am trying to make ultra bay hot swap to  
> work. Does it depend on an hda or sda mapping? Is it independent of hda  
> versue sda?

I works way better (no DMA problems and such) with the libata, which
you see as sda. See
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_hotswap_UltraBay_devices for
details.

Regards,
Tino