debian and sata drives

[Adam Myrow]

On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, Sean McMahon wrote:

> Yet te last time I looked at a 2.6 kernel config the messages said that sada
> support was depricated and to use some tool I can't remember the name of for
> sada support.  What does that really mean if anything?

There are two SATA drivers in the 2.6 kernel.  One is under the IDE 
section, and that's the one that is listed as deprecated.  The second one 
is under SCSI.  You have to select SCSI support, even if you don't have 
any SCSI devices.  To me, that should be the deprecated driver, but it is 
the one that has pretty much taken over, as it supports many more 
controllers.  It is called Libata.