Re: AHCI should try to claim all AHCI controllers

[Alan Cox]

Ar Maw, 2006-10-31 am 21:22 -0800, ysgrifennodd Linus Torvalds:
> (We had the same issue with "PCI IDE controller". Some PCI IDE controllers 
> are clearly exactly that from a programming interface standpoint, but 
> because they support RAID in hardware, they claim to be RAID controllers, 
> since that is more "glamorous". Gaah ;^).

Actually its far uglier than that. With one exception they don't support
hardware raid mode, they use the RAID class tag to stop other OS drivers
grabbing the interface or seeing it directly as un-raided software raid.

Alan
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