Re: [PATCH] IDE 58

Anton Altaparmakov (aia21@cantab.net)
Wed, 08 May 2002 19:29:55 +0100

At 11:25 08/05/02, Martin Dalecki wrote:
>Terminology in 2.5:
>We have a host chip set or shortly a host chip. This is implementing the
>ATA interface on the side of the motherboard.
>The host chip is providing two channels. A primary and a secondary
>one. To a channel we can attach two devices, however we use the term
>drive instead in code becouse the termi device is quite overloaded with
>meaning already. The devices are enumerated as units. That's it.
>Far more natural then hwif hwgrp and so on. IDE is the Integrated Device
>Electronic - the microcontroller stuff I don't care that much about.

</me ignorant>Um, what about the IDE PCI cards which have 4 channels on
them? Like these two:

Adaptec 2400 4Ch IDE Raid Controller
RocketRaid 404 4Ch ATA133 Raid Host Adaptor

Best regards,

Anton

ps Sorry about the outburst yesterday, I was tired and just flipped...

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