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. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org