Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Sunday 2008-04-06 at 11:39 -0400, Larry Stotler wrote:
that can cause kernel panics during boot if the SCSI drive was supposed to be sda and had been bumped. I wish they had used a different drive type for SATA, even tho it's basically like SCSI anyway. Oh well.
SATA can hook up to a SAS (serial attached SCSI) controller, but SCSI has a larger command set. Basically, this current method can be convenient in some circumstances (replacing SATA disks with SAS disks) ...and annoying in many others (when you really do want to differentiate between your SCSI disks and your non-SCSI disks.... plus the new ridiculously low partition limit being blindly applied to both. The kernel devs must have been on drugs the month they merged that in without doing some basic sanity checking (is this a real SCSI disk, or a SATA disk?... figure it out by probing the hardware with the sg (generic scsi) device, and then choose a real device (SCSI or SATA) accordingly. ARG!!! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org