On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:57:09 -0600, you wrote: >Michael W Cocke wrote: >> Just a passing comment - hopefully it will start a discussion and I'll >> learn something. I have a pair of seriously hacked P4 systems (3 IDE >> controllers including the motherboard, all IDE controllers fully >> populated, 2 NICs, 3.6+ TB, 2 GB of ram). I can install Fedora 7 on >> them and it works pretty well 'out of the box'. Try to go to any >> higher version and the installer dies, or data is corrupted as it's >> written, or any number of other bad things. >> >> What did they change that makes such a huge difference? I know the >> hardware is weird and I'd understand if Fedora never worked, but it >> worked great - up to F8. >> >They changed the IDE drivers that are being used, and are treating >all the drives as SCSI drives when you get above the hardware >specific drivers. > >Mikkel I knew about everything being handled as SCSI, but I didn't make the connection that it was using completely different IDE drivers.(Duh!) Apparently the new drivers are much less robust. Is there a way to revert back to the older drivers? Mike- -- If you're not confused, you're not trying hard enough. -- Please note - Due to the intense volume of spam, we have installed site-wide spam filters at catherders.com. If email from you bounces, try non-HTML, non-encoded, non-attachments,
