On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 4:27 AM, Richard Creighton
Changing IDE devices to be treated the same as SATA / SCSI for naming purposes causedme and a whole bunch of others (with mixed IDE/SATA systems)many problems judging from the buglist reports that ensued, not the least of which was during the install of 10.3, it properly installed to my 1st SATA drive (which was bought for the purpose) and put the system onto that drive (then called /dev/sdaN) and the installation on /dev/hdaN was properly ignored at that point. So far, fine, BUT, during the installation procedure, suddenly my /dev/hdaN became /dev/sdaN and the new install was relegated to /dev/sdbN and THEN GRUB was written to point to /dev/sdaN (which used to be my IDE drive) and further installation proceeded to OVERWRITE a perfectly good 10.2 installation which was on the IDE drive and the SATA drive never was completely configured because everything was set for /dev/sdaN and not the renamed /dev/sdbN which contained the first part of the installation. So, I ended up with a hosed 10.2 installation because parts were overwritten, and a hosed 10.3 installation because it was incomplete and GRUB couldn't find a bootable system on either. So, his question seems valid, What was the reason and WHY didn't the readme explain that an IDE drive would be added as the LOWEST /dev/sdX device and the real SATA drives would all be re 'numbered', messing up who knows how many programs that were looking for a specific /dev/sdX drive. No mention that before installation you should disconnect IDE devices to protect them, no mention of changing so that disk drive partitions are accessed by volume name or drive ID name or whatever, but not by /dev/hdX BEFORE attempting installation (and I am not sure that would have prevented the fiasco) but simply saying "Oh, by the way, libata will do such and such". So what? What does this mean to someone trying to install 10.3 on a system that has an IDE system (even Windoze) with an OS on it and because SATA is almost all you can buy now days, or if you already have 4 IDE devices (couple of CDRoms and a master/slave HD) that when you expand your system, you usually will be adding SATA devices. It meant nothing to me, especially as this was a 10.2 to 10.3 'minor' release increment and I wasn't expecting it to hose my good install. None since 7.x through 10.2 had done so to me before and I didn't expect it then.
Richard
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