Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

From: Gene Heskett
Date: Mon Jan 28 2008 - 21:21:00 EST


On Monday 28 January 2008, Gene Heskett wrote:
>On Monday 28 January 2008, Robert Hancock wrote:
>[...]
>
>>Check the /etc/modprobe.conf file, a lot of distributions use this to
>>generate the initrd. If there's references to pata_amd it'll try and
>>include it.
>
>Bingo! Thanks Robert, I'll try it again with that line commented. I wasn't
>aware of that connection at all. Yup, it worked, I feel a reboot coming
>on. :)

But it didn't work, apparently commenting that line out needs to be balanced
by adding another line telling it amd74xx is the 'hostadapter', not
necessarily scsi.

Can this be made more universal so I don't have to edit /etc/modprobe.conf?

Thanks.

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