Am Sonntag, 30. Dezember 2007 schrieb Theo Wollenleben: > Am Sonntag, 30. Dezember 2007 schrieb Joe Morris (NTM): > > On 12/30/2007 03:57 AM, Theo Wollenleben wrote: > > > So if anybody knows how to disable libata without to reinstall, please > > > tell me. I don't want to reinstall openSUSE 10.3 because the last time > > > I went through the installation procedure one of my partitions was > > > cleared from all data... > > > > You will need to change your drives device naming to correspond to the > > older method, i.e. hdx for ide, sdx for scsi (including cd and dvd > > drives) instead of sdx for drives and srx for optical (replace x with > > letter for drives and numbers for optical [no partitions]. This will > > need to be done in /etc/fstab, /boot/grub (at least menu.lst and > > device.map, as well as your modules used for your initrd in > > /etc/sysconfig/kernel and rebuild your initrd. Probably best to do all > > that after booting into the rescue system mode. HTH. > > I used the YaST sysconfig editor to replaced 'pata_via' by 'ide_disk' in > INITRD_MODULES and changed my drives device naming > in /boot/menu.lst, /boot/device.map and /etc/fstab (sda -> hda, sdb -> hdd > in my case). It seems to work fine. Now ide drives are named /dev/hd* and > there are no system freezes any more while reading the secondary IDE > channel.
The old ide drivers seem to work fine as long as it doesn't come to using DVD-RAMs. To write and read them in a reliable way I have to use a packet device now. I also hear a squeaking of my hard drive from time to time as I was used to from previous versions of SUSE. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
