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Re: [opensuse] opensuse-10,3beta2 on on64bit: IDE disk gets recognised as /dev/sda
- From: Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:41:21 +0200
- Message-id: <m36435ds0e.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxx>
"Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> The Thursday 2007-08-23 at 22:34 +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote:
>
>> It is a feature. hda is ... mostly history.
>>
>> We now use libata for IDE drives which is a SCSI based library.
>
> Is there any hope of increasing the 16 partition limit some time in the
> future?
No - but we added a workaround for this. If you have more than 16
partitions, just give it a try!
> Alternatively, will the ata support remain for ever, with maintenance?
I guess for 10.4, we will remove it.
> I have disks with 20 partitions. I suspect I'm not the only one using more
> than 16 partitions.
So, please test whether it our workaround makes you happy ;-)
Andreas
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Andreas Jaeger, Director Platform/openSUSE, aj@xxxxxxx
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)
Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
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> The Thursday 2007-08-23 at 22:34 +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote:
>
>> It is a feature. hda is ... mostly history.
>>
>> We now use libata for IDE drives which is a SCSI based library.
>
> Is there any hope of increasing the 16 partition limit some time in the
> future?
No - but we added a workaround for this. If you have more than 16
partitions, just give it a try!
> Alternatively, will the ata support remain for ever, with maintenance?
I guess for 10.4, we will remove it.
> I have disks with 20 partitions. I suspect I'm not the only one using more
> than 16 partitions.
So, please test whether it our workaround makes you happy ;-)
Andreas
--
Andreas Jaeger, Director Platform/openSUSE, aj@xxxxxxx
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)
Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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