> > I don't think there is anything useful in old IDE that isn't in the new. > > You mean besides being able to access all existing disk partitions? Google Al Viro vetoed this support in the SCSI core. Take it up with him. The libata layer is happy with lots of partitions but it needs a change for sparse minors, or your distribution to use device mapper to do the work. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
