greg freemyer tlvognmhkkorgmailcom feb 19 2008 1108 carlos e r wrote begin pgp signed message hash sha1 tuesday 20080219 0950 0500 greg freemyer wrote least control kernel devs taken nothing away traditional ide drivers actively supported suse kernels 103 110 dont know kernel devs added parallel development track copy years ago 2 drivers vast majority pata ide controllers choice whether use traditional set new set nobody else making decisions dont like new way use old one described release notes day one obviously suse novell make choice default driver set 103 choose leading edge set pretty consistent opensuse philosophy ive seen one happy see moving forward need extra partitions add boot flag update grub setup fstab entries really dont understand gripping 103 respect suse ever drops traditional driverside support time complain complaints occur alphabeta process 6 months product released complaining 103 complain 103 beta time record want check bugzillas included complain written intention iswas remove traditional set 110 dont remember reading written intention per felix 110 still driverside support may remembering post made time ago guessing driverside support might dropped 110 libata able full replacement time new method leading edge en fin one respect could devised really new device node set drivers neither limitations scsi ata choose compatibility one set set device nodes new libata drivers leveraged scsi infrastructure get solid leg stated goal eliminate reliance build infrastructure nobody actually claimed working afaik stated goal since 260 believe long time coming given old driverside actively supported suspect suse provide us options longer takes another couple years libata removed scsi infrastructure made full blown subsystem scsi limitations live especially old driverside option fall back greg greg freemyer litigation triage solutions specialist httpwwwlinkedincomingregfreemyer first 99 days litigation white paper httpwwwnorcrossgroupcomformswhitepapers9920days20whitepaperpdf norcross group intersection evidence technology httpwwwnorcrossgroupcom thu 07 aug 2008 014334 0500 opensuse libata partition limit ext3 check forced frustration