Re: problems with "options" in modules.conf
Quoting Oreste Salerno (osalerno@studenti.unina.it):
> I have a quite strange problem with the Debian potato: I want my cdrom
> reader and writer (hdb and hdc) to be ignored by the ide-cd module driver,
> in order to activate for them the ide-scsi module and use as normal SCSI
> devices. In ide-cd.c it's written that I should put in modules.conf:
>
> options ide-cd ignore='hdb hdc'
>
> and that's what I did. The problem is that ide-cd only ignores hdb, but
> still recognizes hdc. This thing does not happen if I write, directly from
> the command line:
>
> modprobe ide-cd ignore='hdb hdc'
Perhaps it's just that the kernel source is not Debianised.
Take a look at /etc/conf.modules (not modules.conf) and then
follow the comments, i.e. put your options into /etc/modutils/local
and then update-modules.
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