7 Nov
2007
7 Nov
'07
18:03
Dienstag, 6. November 2007 Sunny:
The prosecutor steps in :)
The device name will differ if you use the old PATA drivers to access IDE drives (/dev/hdx) and the new SATA drivers, which create /dev/sdx.
People clone for a tight spec range. They will not mix pata and sata boards and expect things to work. Motion denied.
As far as you can boot either way (providing the right boot options), hard-coding the device names is going to be mess.
Look at /etc/fstab. There's your hard-coded device nomenclature. Be it by path, id, device name. It's not a mess, it's how it works. I'm afraid this motion has to be denied :) Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org