Someone was asking about 2.4.10 recently. Here's what I stumbled on. Just a warning that when using ide-scsi as a module in 2.4.10, the file /proc/partitions is broken (it cats forever on my system). Perhaps this wouldn't be important except that I use win4lin and it's boot-up script greps this file and hangs forever, eating up all the CPU.
It appears to be a known issue. http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/docs/kernel-newsflash.html#2.4-series says: The latest official kernel is 2.4.10 The SCSI partition handling code appears to be broken, and sometimes causes commands like mount -a to hang. Also, a pile of experimental, undocumented VM changes were applied, so be wary. The recommended compiler is now gcc-2.95.3, rather than gcc-2.91.66 (egcs-1.1.2). So I guess I hit that bug. Works okay with ide-scsi compiled-in. Peter
