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

Tue Apr 17 00:47:34 UTC 2007

On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 18:32 -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> 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

We know and are working towards a solution on this one for test4

Jeremy