old disk access

[Robert Heller]

At Thu, 16 May 2019 02:40:31 +0200 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> The mobo I'm using at the moment has got no PATA/IDE connectors at all.
> Assuming new kernels would suffer from an IDE controller
> support regression, how many users would report this upstream?

I believe that the PATA/IDE driver is still staticly included in the kernel.
And the PATA/IDE interface is pretty simple and standardized at this point.
*Some* mobo still have one PATA/IDE connector (and some even still have a
floppy controller), and even modern mobos have at least a 10pin header for
/dev/ttyS0, even if the mobo does not come with a little dingus with the DB9
connector on it.

*I* have a universal disk <=> USB adapter (SATA, desktop PATA/IDE, and laptop 
PATA/IDE).  I can connect to any disk, since PATA/IDE.  Of course, using this 
gadget, the kernel will only see some flavor of USB disk, showing up as 
/dev/sd<mumble>, even for PATA/IDE disks.


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