fedora 6 kernel panic issues

[Jason Taylor]

Actually the controller is on the drive now, not on the motherboard.
This has been true since the adoption of IDE.  The motherboard host
adapter or interface is only passing commands to the controller which is
actually on the disk.  It is a historical semantic misnomer that we call
a host adapter a controller.  So by changing out the drive you are
effectively changing the controller. 

Of course this says nothing about bad cables or bad power etc.

-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Alan Cox
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 7:59 AM
To: For users of Fedora
Cc: fc-cornette at insight.rr.com
Subject: Re: fedora 6 kernel panic issues

> effecting the other drive as well. I had an old 486 with a X2 CD
burner 
> effecting the bus and appearing as the problem was with the disk. This

> was on a computer with only one controller though.

A parallel ATA controller setup means the master can take out the slave
and vice versa. SATA is one drive per cable which prevents that
happening.

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