> 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
