Re: [PLUG] AIC-7869

[Mental Patient <mental@neverlight.com>]

LeRoy Cressy wrote:
> If you are using scsi drives as your boot drives the scsi driver cannot 
> be compiled as a module.  The same as your root file system cannot be a 
> module.
>
> AFIK most distribution kernels do not come with scsi compiled within 
> their default kernel, since most people do not want to pay for scsi 
> equipment and most prebuilt systems just have IDE.

For the record I _only_ had scsi drives for a long time. SuSE, RedHat, 
Dabian and Mandrake all worked. I had an adaptec 2940 and a 7890 that 
worked fine. Also, you can use an initrd and have the scsi drivers load 
as modules. This works for filesystem modules also. Just an FYI.



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