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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 | |||
7 | bool | 7 | bool |
8 | 8 | ||
9 | menuconfig IDE | 9 | menuconfig IDE |
10 | tristate "ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support" | 10 | tristate "ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support (DEPRECATED)" |
11 | depends on HAVE_IDE | 11 | depends on HAVE_IDE |
12 | depends on BLOCK | 12 | depends on BLOCK |
13 | ---help--- | 13 | ---help--- |
14 | If you say Y here, your kernel will be able to manage low cost mass | 14 | If you say Y here, your kernel will be able to manage ATA/(E)IDE and |
15 | storage units such as ATA/(E)IDE and ATAPI units. The most common | 15 | ATAPI units. The most common cases are IDE hard drives and ATAPI |
16 | cases are IDE hard drives and ATAPI CD-ROM drives. | 16 | CD-ROM drives. |
17 | 17 | ||
18 | If your system is pure SCSI and doesn't use these interfaces, you | 18 | This subsystem is currently in maintenance mode with only bug fix |
19 | can say N here. | 19 | changes applied. Users of ATA hardware are encouraged to migrate to |
20 | 20 | the newer ATA subsystem ("Serial ATA (prod) and Parallel ATA | |
21 | Integrated Disk Electronics (IDE aka ATA-1) is a connecting standard | 21 | (experimental) drivers") which is more actively maintained. |
22 | for mass storage units such as hard disks. It was designed by | ||
23 | Western Digital and Compaq Computer in 1984. It was then named | ||
24 | ST506. Quite a number of disks use the IDE interface. | ||
25 | |||
26 | AT Attachment (ATA) is the superset of the IDE specifications. | ||
27 | ST506 was also called ATA-1. | ||
28 | |||
29 | Fast-IDE is ATA-2 (also named Fast ATA), Enhanced IDE (EIDE) is | ||
30 | ATA-3. It provides support for larger disks (up to 8.4GB by means of | ||
31 | the LBA standard), more disks (4 instead of 2) and for other mass | ||
32 | storage units such as tapes and cdrom. UDMA/33 (aka UltraDMA/33) is | ||
33 | ATA-4 and provides faster (and more CPU friendly) transfer modes | ||
34 | than previous PIO (Programmed processor Input/Output) from previous | ||
35 | ATA/IDE standards by means of fast DMA controllers. | ||
36 | |||
37 | ATA Packet Interface (ATAPI) is a protocol used by EIDE tape and | ||
38 | CD-ROM drives, similar in many respects to the SCSI protocol. | ||
39 | |||
40 | SMART IDE (Self Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) was | ||
41 | designed in order to prevent data corruption and disk crash by | ||
42 | detecting pre hardware failure conditions (heat, access time, and | ||
43 | the like...). Disks built since June 1995 may follow this standard. | ||
44 | The kernel itself doesn't manage this; however there are quite a | ||
45 | number of user programs such as smart that can query the status of | ||
46 | SMART parameters from disk drives. | ||
47 | 22 | ||
48 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the | 23 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the |
49 | module will be called ide-core. | 24 | module will be called ide-core. |
50 | 25 | ||
51 | For further information, please read <file:Documentation/ide/ide.txt>. | 26 | For further information, please read <file:Documentation/ide/ide.txt>. |
52 | 27 | ||
53 | If unsure, say Y. | 28 | If unsure, say N. |
54 | 29 | ||
55 | if IDE | 30 | if IDE |
56 | 31 | ||