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  1. Bug #19749
  2. Comment #37

Comment 37 for bug 19749

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Ben Collins (ben-collins) wrote : Re: [Bug 19749] SATA HDD not recognized during Breezy Colony 4 install or Dapper Flight 3

On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 16:22 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> It depends - the hardware can be driven either way depending on how the
> BIOS sets it up. In both cases, it has the same device ID. I'll check
> the specs to see if we have any way of telling which mode it's in from
> userspace, and if so Scott says we can make sure udev only loads the
> correct module.

The alternative (which I prefer) is if we can get the ata_piix module to
detect that it is in this state and just ignore the device (not bind to
it) so that ahci can grab it. Would also need ahci to have the same
detection.

This prevents users from doing weird things. The udev approach would
allow users to break things on their own.

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Ben Collins
Kernel Developer - Ubuntu Linux