Hugo Vanwoerkom:
>
> But that the combination of 'Y's and 'M's is immaterial as to the
> functioning of the driver.
>
> Am I correct?
Generally yes. There are modules which are better compiled statically
(IDE/S-ATA, filesystems) but they work either way.
> This in regard to trying to get smartctl to work with my external USB
> ATA drive. Which works OK with the debian kernel but not in my own
> compiled one.
Are you sure you could successfully run smartctl no a drive attached via
USB? As fas as I know, SMART values cannot be read from a device if it
is attached to a USB port.
J.
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I think the environment will be okay.
[Agree] [Disagree]
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