On Mon April 16 2007, Andreas Jaeger scratched these words onto a coconut shell, hoping for an answer:
"Alexey Eremenko" <al4321@gmail.com> writes:
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?
Did you read my announcement at all?
Call for Testing
libata for IDE devices
We're using the libata stack now also for IDE controllers. Please do test that an update works and all files are changed automatically (libata uses /dev/sda for the first harddisk instead of /dev/hda). Disks with more than 15 partitions are not handled right now, we're still evaluating whether there is a good solution. to use the old scheme, boot with "hwprobe=-modules.pata".
Andreas Andreas, You were expecting people to read the documentation ??? Silly, no one EVER reads that stuff... ;-)
How many timesdo we have the same stupid *discussion*about the need for hard copies of documentation vs, "just get rid of it all, I never read any of that stuff, its a waste of money to write and print it. " The two sides of this aurgume... uh, no, rather say disCUSSion , which by now borders on religious zealotry. ( Emphasis on "cussing" intended, as it often falls just short of what the list gods will tolerate for language. ) I suspect a lot of the folks who took up your offer of really early software that needs testing ( alpha, let alone betas ), didn't even notice the way you described the items. In some ways you probably get a better cross section of *real life* users testing it. Of course this sort of users wasn't what you were looking for .Those that just want the very latest, hottest, most far out from the center as they can get.. and there will be many of them who send you strange reports of broken this or that pieces. I thought your announcement represented exactly what you were looking for in testers. But, you forgot a universal constant of software. "Nobody reads the documentation" Except perhaps one other person,in the world, and me. No matter what documentation you use, nor what you say when you let it leave your hand, will in any way prevent people in the future, when your products go gold again, complaining bout strange things you weren't even concerned w/. From the "this software burned my house down" to "what is this software supposed to *do* ? " All variants of user remarks. -- j I've lived in the real world enough, we're all here because we ain't all there. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org