Switching to libata drivers

[B.J. McClure]

> 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.
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