F8 install failure again & again

[Felix Miata]

On 2007/12/15 20:54 (GMT-0700) Craig White apparently typed:

> On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 22:36 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:

>> Sure, but / is on PATA hdc11 with only 13 partitions, so it shouldn't matter.
>> F7 is on PATA hda11, even though hda has more than 20 total. The
>> SCSI^H^H^H^Hlibata limitation/fiction shouldn't be impacting this. I need to
>> find out somehow if ata_piix is ever getting into the initrd.

> you are referring to PATA hdc11 but there is no /dev/hdc11 on Fedora
> 8...that's what the link says...they're now all /dev/sdcXX

It used to be that PATA was not SATA was not SCSI was not USB, and we could
distinguish which was which by their names. Now since libata, PATA = SATA =
SCSI = USB, and distinguishing which is which in discussion is anything but
easy - unless made easier by referring to them by traditional names, which is
what I did. PATA is no less PATA just because libata wants to call it SCSI.
So, hdc3, even though it doesn't live in /dev on F8, does have a clearly
understood meaning, while sdc3 could mean any of at least 4 things, depending
on what's actually installed and the whim of udev.

If it was up to me, Al Viro and those responsible for libata as SCSI aka
screw backward compatibilty would be shark bait. :-p
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