On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 12:28:16AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > OK that's good.. although if you have udev and hotplug installed, that > should load sata_via / sata_promise for you well before the mdadm > startup runs. > > udev runs as /etc/rcS.d/S04udev, while mdadm is S25mdadm-raid... Well discover runs at S36, and I am not sure udev (at least in sarge) does any driver loading. Len Sorensen