Re: [opensuse] opensuse-10,3beta2 on on64bit: IDE disk gets recognised as /dev/sda

From: "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:57:05 +0200 (CEST)

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The Thursday 2007-08-23 at 22:34 +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote:

It is a feature. hda is ... mostly history.

We now use libata for IDE drives which is a SCSI based library.

Is there any hope of increasing the 16 partition limit some time in the
future?

Alternatively, will the ata support remain for ever, with maintenance?

I have disks with 20 partitions. I suspect I'm not the only one using more
than 16 partitions.

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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.

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