Harald Dunkel wrote: > This is not about initrd. The IDE drivers are not loaded from the > initrd in this case, because my root disk is managed by sata_sil. > Sorry, probably my report wasn't precise about this. Surely the initrd must load the appropriate ide drivers for your system to boot? > I am not sure about all the other drivers. Fact is: d-i writes > "ide-generic" into /etc/modules. If I don't manually remove it, then > DMA is turned off for my IDE CDROM. And I can't switch it on using > hdparm. Both IDE drivers (ide-generic and amd74xx) are loaded. > > This is the generated /etc/modules for my PC (without the > comment lines): > > ide-cd > ide-generic > sbp2 > sd_mod > sr_mod The ide-cd and ide-generic are written there to support systems that have a scsi hard disk and ide cdrom, as otherwise there is likely nothing that will load ide support to let the cd drive work. It could stand to not do this if the hard disk is not scsi.. > AFAICS ide-generic is loaded via /etc/modules very early at > boot time. Well after the initrd loads ide on most systems, AFAIK. -- see shy jo
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