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On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 06:13, Tucker I Sylvestro wrote: |
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> Nope, I didn't type modprobe 3w-xxxx until after I built and copied it in |
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> the way I mentioned in the howto. Nor did I know I needed to probe the |
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> scsi driver in order to have sda created. That sounds much easier than |
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> then the process I went through ;) |
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believe me it is :) |
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> I do think it would be nice to have that linked somewhere off the install |
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> page, or at least somewhere in the docs. I thought I'd been pretty |
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> thorough about looking in all the right places before trying to roll my |
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> own solution, and didn't find that described anywhere. |
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I'm going to be including this in a forth coming guide (server focused). |
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> Purely out of curiousity, why don't I need to run modprobe now that my |
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> computer's booting off the RAID array? I compiled the module into my |
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> kernel, so how is it different from the kernel on the CD (which did not |
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> automatically recognize the drives) if the drivers were compiled into that |
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> too? I'm pretty sure I do have the 1.1a version since I bought it from |
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> Edmunds Enterprises, straight off the link on the gentoo.org home page. |
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the module on the cd is just that, a module,.. and as loading every |
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module on the cd would require a non-trivial memory load it's easier for |
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people to load them manually. |
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(i believe the current install documentation does actually mention the |
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use of |
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"modprobe sd_mod" |
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for loading the relevant disk drivers) |
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there is a list of the modules available, (see Bug ID #2764 on |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org). |
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Colin Morey, |
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(Aka Peitolm/col) |
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