On Thursday February 15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > With my ide driver and the md stuff all built into the kernel, my software > raid drives and associated /dev/md? devices are detected and created by the > kernel.
Yep. > > With the md stuff built in but the ide driver modular and loaded later by > udev, the drives are not detected. No, they aren't. > > So, I guessed that perhaps if I made the md stuff modular aswell and load it > _after_ loading the ide driver, this might kickstart the auto-detect stuff. > But it didn't :( No, it wouldn't. > > Is there a way to make auto-detection work without having the ide driver > built > in? Don't use in-kernel auto-detection. Use mdadm to do the auto-detection for you. mdadm --assemble --scan --homehost='<system>' --auto-update-homehost might work providing your hostname has been set by the time it runs. NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
