F7T4 and SATA/IDE testing - a call to arms!

Mon Apr 16 22:32:40 UTC 2007

On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 10:25:58PM +0000, Will Woods wrote:
> One of the biggest changes in F7 is the new IDE driver stack, which uses
> libata (like the SATA drivers do). Not only are IDE hard drives now
> called /dev/sdX, but they're using new and interesting code. This could
> be (and has been) causing some problems relating to drive detection at
> boot time and install time, especially with upgrades from FC6 and
> earlier.

What about Anaconda issues?  Anaconda doesn't handle the transition of 
/dev/hdX to /dev/sdX properly on upgrades due to /etc/sysconfig/grub:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=229704