Re: [opensuse] the new openSUSE kernel and the IDE

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The Saturday 2007-04-14 at 20:12 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:

The biggest 2 changes I know of beyond naming convention are:

libata supports fewer partitions per drive (16?)

15, in fact. And I have 20, so I can't use that suse version.


- From the official announce a month ago:

Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:09:04 +0100
From: Andreas Jaeger
To: <opensuse-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [opensuse-announce] openSUSE 10.3 Alpha2 Release

I'm glad to announce the second public alpha release of openSUSE 10.3.

...

We're using the libata stack now also for IDE controllers. Please do
test that an update works and all files are changed automatically
(libata uses /dev/sda for the first harddisk instead of /dev/hda).
Disks with more than 15 partitions are not handled right now, we're
still evaluating whether there is a good solution. to use the old
scheme, boot with "hwprobe=-modules.pata". See below for Bug 250241
as well.


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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.

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