On 4/14/07, Carlos E. R. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1The Saturday 2007-04-14 at 20:12 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote: > The biggest 2 changes I know of beyond naming convention are: > > libata supports fewer partitions per drive (16?) 15, in fact. And I have 20, so I can't use that suse version. - From the official announce a month ago: Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:09:04 +0100 From: Andreas Jaeger To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [opensuse-announce] openSUSE 10.3 Alpha2 Release I'm glad to announce the second public alpha release of openSUSE 10.3. ... We're using the libata stack now also for IDE controllers. Please do test that an update works and all files are changed automatically (libata uses /dev/sda for the first harddisk instead of /dev/hda). Disks with more than 15 partitions are not handled right now, we're still evaluating whether there is a good solution. to use the old scheme, boot with "hwprobe=-modules.pata". See below for Bug 250241 as well. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
Carlos, Within the last week I saw a posting on the libata list from Alan Cox that as soon as the HPA issue was addressed he considered the libata/pata subsystem feature equivalent with the old drivers/ide subsystem. He made no mention of the 15 partition limit, so if you think that it is a significant issue, you should say something. Alan is with RedHat, but he was the 2.4 drivers/ide maintainer (I think), and he has definitely been the person pushing the libata/pata move. You can post directly to "Linux-ide" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I believe without subscribing. And the standard policy on the lkml lists is reply-all, so you should be in copy of all reply's. Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
