On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 6:26 PM, Cristian Rodríguez <crrodriguez@suse.de> wrote:
Nico Sabbi escribió:
you can solve this problem (that made me definitively abandon Fedora for Suse) simply replacing your ata controller with its non-libata counterpart: e.g. I had to remove sata_via in favor of vt82cxxx.
That is no solution, drivers needs fixing/workaround instead.
Historically the Linux 2.6 kernel has had some situations where they only supported the PATA connections of a controller or the SATA connections. I believe dual support has been to most by now, so I don't know if any drivers are still hobbled like that in 2.6.25 or not. Thus if a user had one of those, they either had to choose one half of their controller to use, or get a different controller. I believe one workaround was to run the controller in "legacy" mode and use the PATA driver.
e to remove non-libata based drivers that Fedora did.
They may be removed at some in the future though, but that's something kernel people decides.
The old drivers/ide subsystem is likely to be in vanilla kernels for a year or two longer (or more), but it can be disabled during kernel compile. I gather from Nico's comment that Fedora has quit building them into their kernels. A surprising situation, but certainly technically feasible. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org