YDL fdisk says it can't find hard drive on new dual G4

[Tim Seufert]

On Tuesday, October 15, 2002, at 01:21  PM, Tim ODriscoll wrote:

> Ooo, just read the ATA100/66 post... I'm an i386 boy myself, and these
> Mac's are a little different... I'd try the ATA66 bus first :)
>
> Once YDL is installed on the disk via the ATA66 bus, would it work if 
> one
> swapped it onto the ATA100 bus? I know linux supports ATA100 in the 
> Intel
> world, so PPC can't be that far off can it?

You'd have to get a new kernel that supported the new controller 
(possibly means compiling a new kernel as I'm not sure whether YDL has 
yet released a kernel for it), and install it before moving the disk.  
There will also be issues with bootloader and /etc/fstab configuration 
since moving a disk changes what device node it shows up at.  (And 
adding a "new" IDE bus that former kernels couldn't see will also 
impact device node assignments.)

In other words, it can be done, but not without some effort to fix 
things up.