25Jan/080
On SATA/PATA, libata and JMicron controllers
This might be useful for all of you oldtimers 
I had an IDE HDD and IDE DVD drives connected on one stripe. The HDD was in the middle and the DVD was at the end of the cable due to "internal architecture" in my computer case. Again HDD was selected as a master and DVD as a slave using switches on the drives. Just like you'd do this in the old, <=UDMA33, times.
Everything went smoothly until I've upgraded my motherboard (+ CPU + RAM) to Asus P5B-V like six months ago. I've connected both drives to the single available IDE slot without changing their config.
Lately I've noticed "host 80-wire cable detection failed" messages in my logs (kernel 2.6.23) and wanted to switch completely to libata -- as I have also bought a new SATA drive.
