1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
|
linux-latest-2.6 (26) unstable; urgency=low
* The old IDE (PATA) drivers are no longer developed. Most PATA
controllers can be handled by new drivers using 'libata', which is
already used for SATA controllers. The new kernel package, which
this package depends on, enables all the new drivers that are
considered stable and disables the old drivers that they replace.
While the old drivers presented device names beginning with 'hd',
libata makes PATA drives appear as SCSI devices and presents device
names beginning with 'sd' (hard drive), 'sr' (optical) or 'st' (tape).
In a system that already has other SCSI or SCSI-like devices, names
may change unpredictably.
During the upgrade from earlier versions, you will be prompted to
update configuration files which refer to device names that may
change. You can choose to do this yourself or to follow an automatic
upgrade process. Unfortunately the automatic upgrade process does not
cover tape drives. All changed configuration files are backed up with
a suffix of '.old' (or '^old' in one case).
The automatic upgrade code does not support the configuration files
of many of the boot loaders used on non-PC architectures, so you may
be prompted to make changes manually.
-- Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Tue, 04 May 2010 02:10:04 +0100
|
