Even disregarding SATA at all: IDE interfaces and drives are still being used, produced, and sold, and, IMHO, it should be supported.
A gutsy system is unbootable when an extra IDE controller in addition to the IDE controllers on the main board is installed, which is quite likely for anyone having >4 IDE drives. That may be rare, but sufficiently common to affect a significant number of systems. Aaron C. de Bruyn wrote: > Re the comment about motherboards and interfaces, I just purchased a new > board supports 12 SATA connections onboard. It also supports 2 IDE > connections. I'm building a mid-range storage server for my home > office. Eventually I'll have enough in the budget to toss a RAID card > in instead of doing softraid. This could complicate things more due to > the fact that a lot of SATA RAID controllers I run into present the > array as an IDE drive. > > When I did my initial testing on this bug, I noticed the 'make > menuconfig' section of the kernel would only allow me to specify a > maximum of 9. > > On one hand, it's probably unheard of to find a system that supports 9 > IDE drives (requiring 4+ IDE interfaces on the board), but on the other > hand, it's not unheard of to find RAID cards exposing themselves as IDE > drives which could give you a huge number of IDE drives for the system. > -- IDE0 and IDE1 taken over by SATA in Gutsy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/157909 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
