Re: Asus A8V - Promise Controller

[lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 09:25:53AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 05:52:09PM +0100, Klaus Pieper wrote:
> > kp@groucho64:/boot$ grep -i sata  config
> > # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_SATA is not set
> > CONFIG_SCSI_SATA=y
> > # CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_AHCI is not set
> > # CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_SVW is not set
> > # CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_NV is not set
> > CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_PROMISE=y
> 
> But weren't you talking about PATA ports?
> 
> > # CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_VITESSE is not set
> > kp@groucho64:/boot$ grep -i scsi  config
> > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI=m
> 
> Isn't this a bad idea in 2.6?

Usually yes.  You don't HAVE to use it, just because the module is
compiled.  It just means it is there as an option if you want it without
recompiling the kernel.

Len Sorensen