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

[Tim ODriscoll]

On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Tim Seufert wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 15, 2002, at 01:21  PM, Tim ODriscoll wrote:
> > 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.
> 
Thanks for clearing that up. :)

Cheers, Tim.