Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2086 mails)

[Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxx>]

On 2007/08/23 22:29 (GMT+0200) Günter Lichtenberg apparently typed:

>         I just tried to install 10.3beta2 (the KDE CD iso) on my 64bit machine. The 
> first steps worked until the installation set-up. But when I check the 
> suggested partitioning it recognises my IDE disk as an /dev/sda and the menu 
> in the partitioner also says it is a scsi disk. Checking on the suggested 
> GRUB entries, the 10.2 root is also set to /dev/sda. At that point I stopped, 
> because I did not want to shoot down my working 10.2 installation.

> I remember dimly that there was something about devices not correctly 
> identified at some point in bugzilla, but I could not find it back...

> The question is: Is this a real bug or a feature? I always thought that IDE 
> disks should be on hda devices.

Traditional ATA drivers have been replaced by libata drivers in latest
kernels. Libata treats all devices it handles as SCSI, which means the device
rules limiting partition count to less than 16 applies. It remains possible
for those needing to continue using traditional drivers (those with critical
partitions above #15) or wishing to continue to use traditional drivers to
install using the boot option 'brokenmodules=ata_piix', which will leave ATA
devices to be recognized as /dev/hdxx.
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Felix Miata  ***  http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/
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