[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#550316: Bug#550316

[dmsoler at edu.xunta.es]

Michael Biebl wrote:
>Apparently, other distros like Fedora or Ubuntu, completely disable the old IDE
>subsystem, so they are not hit by this bug.

They are not hit by _this_ bug, but they are hit by bugs like this one:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/307829

There are out there some recent pieces of hardware (like this nvidia chipsets, pata_amd module) that have been working like a charm with the "old IDE subsystem", but are (still?) not working (yet?) with libata. 

Regards,

Dionisio Martínez Soler