John Wendel wrote:
> I've already built the new kernel ( 2.6.21 vanilla, released
yesterday
> ). For now, I left the old IDE drivers in the build (as well as the
> SATA drivers I need) because I wasn't sure what would break if I
> dropped the old IDE drivers without doing some prep work first.
I understand that on a standard Fedora install, things should Just
Work.
If you've changed fstab or grub.conf to refer to partitions as
/dev/hdxy, then you'll have problems.
Beware Bug 238289 if you run IDE drive on nvidia nForce 4 chip set.
pata_amd cannot find partitions on IDE drive in f7t4. Also some
anamolies with single sata drive on same system as sata RAID1.
One other potential problem -- if you have more than eleven logical
partitions on one disk, Linux will not be able to "see" them all. This
has to do with current limits on device numbering.
James.
Cheers,
B.J.
CentOS 5.0, Linux 2.6.18-8.1.1.el5 x86_64 09:53:50 up 3:00, 1 user, load
average: 0.17, 0.10, 0.06