Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3464 mails)

["Rajko M." <rmatov101@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 14 April 2007 16:54, ianseeks wrote:
>  On Saturday 14 Apr 2007, Alexey Eremenko wrote:
> > hi all !
> >
> > Just installed openSUSE 10.3 Alpha3 with the new kernel 2.6.21-rc...
> > The problem is that all my IDE hard disks are displayed as "sda"...
> >
> > Why is this?
> >
> > Does it means that the kernel's SCSI module is now used for IDE Hard
> > Disks ?
> >
> > If so, then it's used for all media types: SCSI/IDE Hard Disks, CD
> > Burners, USB Flash Disks, etc... am I correct ?
> >
> > Is there some link that explain this change in behavior ? (at user
> > level, not programmer level)
> >
> > --
> > -Alexey Eremenko "Technologov"
>
> As its a Alpha release, have you checked the "known issues" regarding the
> release? It may be a bug or a feature, you'll need to check

Look in the opensuse-announce list for the announcement of Alpha3, or 
   http://en.opensuse.org/Factory/News
section Changes between openSUSE 10.3 Alpha 1 and Alpha 2
   * libata is now also used for IDE controllers

Which is using /dev/sdx for all drives.  

-- 
Regards, Rajko.
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