I believe you'll be waiting a long time for them to "get it right". The vast majority of systems (probably about 99% at this point) have only a single disk controller in them. And so that's probably the only regularly tested configuration now. (I hadn't realised both disks were IDE; that just makes it more lucky that it happened to work before.) FWIW, it's not that the limitation is "never use more than one disk controller". It's that "using more than one disk controller is an advanced topic and will require sysadmin intervention". Which has pretty much always been true
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The vast majority of systems (probably about 99% at this point) have only a single disk controller in them. And so that's probably the only regularly tested configuration now. (I hadn't realised both disks were IDE; that just makes it more lucky that it happened to work before.)
I think you mean "the vast minority (about 10%)". Surely, the majority of systems currently in use would be of the massive socket 775 (P4/Pentium D/Celeron D/Core2Duo/Core2Extreme/Core2Quad) family and the majority of such machines have both IDE and SATA controllers on-board? I have a P4 machine with IDE, SATA and separate RAID controllers on-board and that's not that uncommon. Core i3/i5/i7 machines don't usually have IDE, but frequently have multiple SATA controllers on-board.
There is absolutely nothing "lucky" about it having worked before. Hda (drive c: to windows) is a well-known, well-defined starting point that every PC operating system for the last 20 years has understood until now.
FWIW, it's not that the limitation is "never use more than one
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I always think of you driving an analytical engine or something with punch-cards, and grumbling about the imminent replacement of valves with transistors ;-)
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I think you mean "the vast minority (about 10%)". Surely, the majority of systems currently in use would be of the massive socket 775 (P4/Pentium D/Celeron D/Core2Duo/Core2Extreme/Core2Quad) family and the majority of such machines have both IDE and SATA controllers on-board? I have a P4 machine with IDE, SATA and separate RAID controllers on-board and that's not that uncommon. Core i3/i5/i7 machines don't usually have IDE, but frequently have multiple SATA controllers on-board.
There is absolutely nothing "lucky" about it having worked before. Hda (drive c: to windows) is a well-known, well-defined starting point that every PC operating system for the last 20 years has understood until now.
FWIW, it's not that the limitation is "never use more than one ( ... )
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