Comment 40 for bug 32357

much of this silliness could probably be avoided by not pretending IDE drives are SCSI drives.

This mess seems to affect most distros now.

The kernel PATA driver still exists and is maintained. The kernel team's stated policy is that it will remain in existence and be fully supported. It is not "deprecated".

What could be simpler than treating an IDE drive as an ide drive?

As for the "data loss" claim in #5 , if you are going to plug in specially formatted encrypted disks and start installing OSes , you had better look where you are stuffing the boot loader.

Anyone using that sort of device is not a novice and should at least look what they are doing.

That would seem to be the only data loss scenario. However the mess that results during updates is unforgivable. If no solution has been found is 4 yrs, I strongly suggest using ide driver forth width.

That driver will probably be around as long as there are ide drives.

Please use it.