On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 07:41:16PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > >On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 04:08:01PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > > > >>Hi folks, > >> > >>Wouldn't it be reasonable to introduce a new bus 'sata' > >>to discover? > > > >IMO no. What should it be good for? I don't know of any device hanging > >on an SATA bus needing some special kernel module. Kernel modules are > >needed for the sata controllers, but they are on the PCI bus. > > > > Discover1 distinguishes between IDE and SCSI, but not between > IDE and SATA. This seems inconsitent. Are you sure you are not mixing device types and buses? In theory it would be possible to add a SATA bus, but I really don't know why this should be done. But as always patches are welcome of course. Gaudenz > > > Regards > > Harri >
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