Open-ended comment about F8 and above hardware issues

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

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
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