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The article also indicates you were the initial creator and earliest maintainer of the IDE subsystem. That's impressive, I didn't realize you were contributing to IDE back in the '90s.

Well, now you know!

But all of my early IDE work (from 1992 onwards) pretty much predates modern hot-pluggable hardware and systems, and really needed a rewrite to accomodate them.

Which is what Tejun, Alan, and Jeff have been busily doing of late, the new "libata" subsystem. I help out too, but keep a lowish profile for the most part.

Cheers