On Thursday 23 August 2007 23:05, Felix Miata wrote:
> > The question is: Is this a real bug or a feature? I always thought that
> > IDE disks should be on hda devices.
>
> Traditional ATA drivers have been replaced by libata drivers in latest
> kernels. Libata treats all devices it handles as SCSI, which means the
> device rules limiting partition count to less than 16 applies. It remains
> possible for those needing to continue using traditional drivers (those
> with critical partitions above #15) or wishing to continue to use
> traditional drivers to install using the boot option
> 'brokenmodules=ata_piix', which will leave ATA devices to be recognized as
> /dev/hdxx.
Hi -
I will try the above for testing and switch to the default, when I
update my
10.2.
Thanks to all
gl
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