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[Theo Wollenleben <alpha0x89@xxxxxxxx>]

Am Sonntag, 30. Dezember 2007 schrieb Theo Wollenleben:
> Am Sonntag, 30. Dezember 2007 schrieb Joe Morris (NTM):
> > On 12/30/2007 03:57 AM, Theo Wollenleben wrote:
> > > So if anybody knows how to disable libata without to reinstall, please
> > > tell me. I don't want to reinstall openSUSE 10.3 because the last time
> > > I went through the installation procedure one of my partitions was
> > > cleared from all data...
> >
> > You will need to change your drives device naming to correspond to the
> > older method, i.e. hdx for ide, sdx for scsi (including cd and dvd
> > drives) instead of sdx for drives and srx for optical (replace x with
> > letter for drives and numbers for optical [no partitions].  This will
> > need to be done in /etc/fstab, /boot/grub (at least menu.lst and
> > device.map, as well as your modules used for your initrd in
> > /etc/sysconfig/kernel and rebuild your initrd.  Probably best to do all
> > that after booting into the rescue system mode.  HTH.
>
> I used the YaST sysconfig editor to replaced 'pata_via' by 'ide_disk' in
> INITRD_MODULES and changed my drives device naming
> in /boot/menu.lst, /boot/device.map and /etc/fstab (sda -> hda, sdb -> hdd
> in my case). It seems to work fine. Now ide drives are named /dev/hd* and
> there are no system freezes any more while reading the secondary IDE
> channel.

The old ide drivers seem to work fine as long as it doesn't come to using 
DVD-RAMs. To write and read them in a reliable way I have to use a packet 
device now. I also hear a squeaking of my hard drive from time to time as I 
was used to from previous versions of SUSE.
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