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On 9/12/06, Danial Thom <danial_thom@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Has anyone ported the ata drivers with SATA
> support back to 4.x? It is doable or are there
> some new kernel structures that won't port?

It is not worth the trouble. Disk subsystem has undergone some
massive performance improvement since 4.x, so you should
consider upgrading to 6.x if your tasks involve newer sata disks.