libata vs via drivers (was: Re: A lot of problems with FC2 Test2 X64_64 - detailed description)

Tue Mar 30 17:14:08 UTC 2004

On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 18:37, Mark wrote:
> [...]
> > That is strange.  My SATA drive comes up as scsi on FC1 (2.4 kernel) but
> > ide on FC2 (2.6 kernel).
> 
> There's two drivers. The straight via driver that is in 2.6.x or the libata 
> driver that is in both. I am currently using the VIA driver with my custom 
> 2.6.4 kernel but I may switch to libata.

What are the pros and cons of one driver respect to the other?

Alex