Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Monday 2007-10-01 at 16:33 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
The issue is far deeper than naming conventions.
Well, it is caused by using just a byte for the minor number in the /dev directory, instead of a word or a longword. Time they changed that!
When SATA support was added to the kernel (libata) they leveraged the entire SCSI subsystem due to its quality compared to the IDE subsystem.
Then libata got to so good that many (most) of the PATA drivers were re-implemented (by Alan Cox of Redhat) via libata. And then the new implementations got stable enough that the distros decided to move to the libata pata drivers by default. (Fedora was the first to move in the spring.)
But, for the foreseeable future you should be able to use the old drivers/ide implementation and get the old functionality (and naming convention).
Yours is a very interesting explanation.
However, it seems that opensuse wants to remove the old pata implementation for the next version, ie #11. If that happens before what you explain below happens, me and others will not be able to install suse.
Why not? I'm not clear on why you wouldn't be able to install with the different naming convention. Or am I missing something else? -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) Linux Brain Dump - Linux Notes, HOWTOs and Tutorials: http://www.linuxbraindump.org Daemon Dancing in the Dark, an Open OS weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org