Re: [PLUG] advice on kernel errors?

["Paul L. Snyder" <plsnyder@drexel.edu>]

Quoting Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>:

> On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 10:05:07AM -0400, Dan Crosta wrote:
[...]
> > have you set CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE in your kernel? It's in "Device
> > Drivers > ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL Support > Use multi-mode by default" in 
> > menuconfig in 2.6.12, and it helped me with that error a while back (in
[...]
> I've never been terribly clear on how to determine how an existing
> kernel was compiled.  All I've read on kernel options has been in that
> vein, too.  
> 
> I think you're telling me how to determine an option I might have used
> when compiling my kernel.  But, in fact, I apt-got my kernel.
> 
> How do I determine if the above was set?

  zcat /proc/config.gz | grep IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE

Supposing that your kernel was compiled with CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC, of
course.

pls

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