fedora 6 kernel panic issues

[Alan Cox]

On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 09:27:40 -0700
"Jason Taylor" <jtaylor at uipacific.com> wrote:

> Actually the controller is on the drive now, not on the motherboard.
> This has been true since the adoption of IDE.

Not really. I'm not sure its relevant in the slightest but the board side
of the interface ceased to be an address decoder and became very much a
controller by ATA-1. Yes the drive has a smart controller on it too but
so does the PC, and you can crash either of them in theory.