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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/ide')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/ide/Kconfig | 45 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 35 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/ide/Kconfig b/drivers/ide/Kconfig index 9a5d0aaac9d0..98ccfeb3f5aa 100644 --- a/drivers/ide/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/ide/Kconfig @@ -7,50 +7,25 @@ config HAVE_IDE bool menuconfig IDE - tristate "ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support" + tristate "ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support (DEPRECATED)" depends on HAVE_IDE depends on BLOCK ---help--- - If you say Y here, your kernel will be able to manage low cost mass - storage units such as ATA/(E)IDE and ATAPI units. The most common - cases are IDE hard drives and ATAPI CD-ROM drives. - - If your system is pure SCSI and doesn't use these interfaces, you - can say N here. - - Integrated Disk Electronics (IDE aka ATA-1) is a connecting standard - for mass storage units such as hard disks. It was designed by - Western Digital and Compaq Computer in 1984. It was then named - ST506. Quite a number of disks use the IDE interface. - - AT Attachment (ATA) is the superset of the IDE specifications. - ST506 was also called ATA-1. - - Fast-IDE is ATA-2 (also named Fast ATA), Enhanced IDE (EIDE) is - ATA-3. It provides support for larger disks (up to 8.4GB by means of - the LBA standard), more disks (4 instead of 2) and for other mass - storage units such as tapes and cdrom. UDMA/33 (aka UltraDMA/33) is - ATA-4 and provides faster (and more CPU friendly) transfer modes - than previous PIO (Programmed processor Input/Output) from previous - ATA/IDE standards by means of fast DMA controllers. - - ATA Packet Interface (ATAPI) is a protocol used by EIDE tape and - CD-ROM drives, similar in many respects to the SCSI protocol. - - SMART IDE (Self Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) was - designed in order to prevent data corruption and disk crash by - detecting pre hardware failure conditions (heat, access time, and - the like...). Disks built since June 1995 may follow this standard. - The kernel itself doesn't manage this; however there are quite a - number of user programs such as smart that can query the status of - SMART parameters from disk drives. + If you say Y here, your kernel will be able to manage ATA/(E)IDE and + ATAPI units. The most common cases are IDE hard drives and ATAPI + CD-ROM drives. + + This subsystem is currently in maintenance mode with only bug fix + changes applied. Users of ATA hardware are encouraged to migrate to + the newer ATA subsystem ("Serial ATA (prod) and Parallel ATA + (experimental) drivers") which is more actively maintained. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be called ide-core. For further information, please read <file:Documentation/ide/ide.txt>. - If unsure, say Y. + If unsure, say N. if IDE |