Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo installation modifications for 3ware cards

[Colin Morey <gentoo@realder.demon.co.uk>]

On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 06:13, Tucker I Sylvestro wrote:
> 
> Nope, I didn't type modprobe 3w-xxxx until after I built and copied it in
> the way I mentioned in the howto.  Nor did I know I needed to probe the
> scsi driver in order to have sda created.  That sounds much easier than
> then the process I went through ;)
> 
believe me it is :)

> I do think it would be nice to have that linked somewhere off the install
> page, or at least somewhere in the docs.  I thought I'd been pretty
> thorough about looking in all the right places before trying to roll my
> own solution, and didn't find that described anywhere.
> 
I'm going to be including this in a forth coming guide (server focused).

> Purely out of curiousity, why don't I need to run modprobe now that my
> computer's booting off the RAID array?  I compiled the module into my
> kernel, so how is it different from the kernel on the CD (which did not
> automatically recognize the drives) if the drivers were compiled into that
> too?  I'm pretty sure I do have the 1.1a version since I bought it from
> Edmunds Enterprises, straight off the link on the gentoo.org home page.
> 
the module on the cd is just that, a module,.. and as loading every
module on the cd would require a non-trivial memory load it's easier for
people to load them manually.
(i believe the current install documentation does actually mention the
use of 
"modprobe sd_mod"
for loading the relevant disk drivers)

there is a list of the modules available, (see Bug ID #2764 on
http://bugs.gentoo.org).

Colin Morey,
(Aka Peitolm/col)