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is SATA considered experimental in Linux?

Subject: is SATA considered experimental in Linux?
From: blu at vl.com (Tom Metro)
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 09:13:59 -0400
In-reply-to: <20050808125958.GB20954@tao>
References: <42F45E07.405@thekramers.net> <42F6B0F2.3010500@vl.com> <42F6B903.1090507@thekramers.net> <42F6BC3B.1040705@vl.com> <20050808122629.GA20954@tao> <42F752B8.1060907@vl.com> <20050808125958.GB20954@tao>

dsr at tao.merseine.nu wrote:
>>>SATA is handled by a completely different set of drivers; old
>>>kernels won't have these and cannot use SATA drives. New kernels
>>>display them as SCSI drives.
>>
>>So presuming you do have a new kernel, is SATA considered experimental?
> 
> It is not listed as an experimental kernel feature, and I have
> not had problems with SATA on Debian 2.6 kernels.

Good to know. Thanks.

  -Tom

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