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The Monday 2007-10-01 at 16:33 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
The issue is far deeper than naming conventions.
Well, it is caused by using just a byte for the minor number in the /dev
directory, instead of a word or a longword. Time they changed that!
When SATA support was added to the kernel (libata) they leveraged the
entire SCSI subsystem due to its quality compared to the IDE
subsystem.
Then libata got to so good that many (most) of the PATA drivers were
re-implemented (by Alan Cox of Redhat) via libata. And then the new
implementations got stable enough that the distros decided to move to
the libata pata drivers by default. (Fedora was the first to move in
the spring.)
But, for the foreseeable future you should be able to use the old
drivers/ide implementation and get the old functionality (and naming
convention).
Yours is a very interesting explanation.
However, it seems that opensuse wants to remove the old pata
implementation for the next version, ie #11. If that happens before what
you explain below happens, me and others will not be able to install suse.
The long term solution is to have libata implement its own full set of
infrastructure and no longer fit under the SCSI infrastructure. When
that happens the partition limits should be restored to the higher
limits.
Novell has Tejun Heo supporting libata. He has done 2 major upgrades
to it in the last 18 months (new error handling logic for 10.2, PMP
support for 10.3, ??? for 11.0).
My hope is that his next big project will be the libata
infrastructure, but I have not seen anything posted about that yet.
I hope you are right and they do that, sooner than later.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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