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Re: Module qeustion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\))
Tue Oct 27 11:30:27 1998
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 16:15:24 +0000
From: "Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)" <argathin@INAME.COM>
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In-Reply-To: <199810271519.PAA22154@byron.emnet.co.uk>; from Godfrey Nix on Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 03:08:09PM +0000
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[IDE driver as kernele module]
Godfrey Nix writes:
> If your primary disk is the IDE drive, then I would have thought
> that you should keep the IDE driver in the kernel and not in a
> loadable module - otherwise how would you be able to boot your
> system?
Although I've never used that feature, I know that it is possible in an
all-SCSI environment to have the SCSI driver modular. In that case, an
initial RAM disk must be used, as far as I remember. My guess would be that
this should be possible for (E)IDE as well, although I hope that a more
knowledgeable person will fill in the details here... :-}
Thomas
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