Bug#338497: [wishlist] Please add 3w-xxxx to the initrd's /loadmodules

[Christian Hammers <ch@debian.org>]

Hello Sven

On 2005-11-10 Sven Luther wrote:
> > Please ad the 3w-xxxx which is the driver for the commonly used 3ware 
> > (P)ATA RAID controller to the list of modules that get loaded automatically
> > because else it won't boot so well...
> 
> Heu, what exactly are you trying to do here ? what is the list of modules to
> get loaded automatically, and will adding it to /etc/modules not solve your
> problem, whatever that problem is ? 

I need the 3w-xxxx.o SCSI RAID controller module to access the harddrive
where my root filesystem is on so using /etc/modules won't work.

With "the list of modules that automatically get loaded" I meant the
/loadmodules (or so) file that I found inside the initrd image from the
official Debian kernel. The image contained a /lib/modules directory with
both 3w-9xxx.ko and 3w-xxxx.ko but in this file only the first was listed.

Or is there at least a kernel boot option which I could use to load this
module before "/" is tried to mount? The module exists in the initrd.img
nevertheless...  (that would be enough for me as I remember that the
kernel was a Sarge one and so has very little chance to get updated)

> Debian booted without problem with my 3w-9xxx card in it, and worked just
> fine, btu that was an etch snapshot.

The 9xxx cards are SATA RAID controller, they have a different module
(3w-9xxx.o).

bye,

-christian-