retitle 551448 path_id.c does not support PATA devices
tag 551448 upstream help
thanks

On Nov 12, Gert Robben <debian-b...@gert.robben.nu> wrote:

> So, the problem seems to be that since version 143, udev doesn't put the IDE 
> device numbers in ID_PATH.
> Then, if a few IDE devices belong to the same PCI ID (as can be seen in the 
> 70-persistent-cd.rules files from the affected people), they can't be 
> differentiated by udev anymore, breaking the persistance.
Good point. I understand that the most recent Debian kernels will
replace the old IDE driver with libata and this will take care of the
problem.
If anybody still wants to fix this, please send a patch for path_id.

> If you use libata (instead of the old BLK_DEV_IDE drivers), you wouldn't be 
> affected, I guess.
But will the path stay the same when the IDE devices will appear as
SCSI devices?

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ciao,
Marco

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