two questions...

[Brian Thompson <brian@eng.wayne.edu>]

a)

Has anyone had any success with disabling/blacklisting a
kernel module? The Debian docs show the following but
it's not working for me on 2.6.18-6-sparc64... The module
still loads.
> Sometimes two different modules claim support for the same device, 
> usually because two slightly different versions of the device exist, 
> requiring different kernel modules to operate. In such situation udev 
> loads both kernel modules, with unpredictable results. To avoid this 
> problem, you can prevent any module (let's say, tulip) from loading by 
> creating an arbitrarily named file, containing a line
>
>      blacklist tulip
>   


b)

I'm having difficulty making use of Seagate disks originally
shipped from Sun with Solaris installed. Up until now I've
simply swapped them out with non-Sun disks, but I now
have a growing stack of  Sun/Seagate hard disks that I
would prefer to make use of if possible. I've already tried
using Seagate's SeaTools utility to zero out the entire hard
disk and "fdisk /mbr" to replace the master boot record
with a DOS mbr. Still no luck...

Any advice on either of the above issues would be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks,
Brian