[GRLUG] Meeting agenda?

[Michael Mol]

On 10/11/06, Tim Schmidt <timschmidt at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/11/06, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Last I checked, you still can't run SMART tools over SATA on most
> > distros.  I'm not even sure the passthrough ioctls have been added to
> > the main kernel tree yet.
>
> Hmmm...  I'd wager they have been, or will be soon.  Allan Cox has
> been working on moving all support for IDEish drives over to the SATA
> code, which has either been comitted, or is being planned for comit in
> the next release or two.  The old IDE code will still stick around
> (like OSS), but be formally deprecated.

Well, that'll be nice.  Will that mean that the SCSI code will be the
basis for all the mass storage device now?  Here's looking forward to
/dev/sd* instead of both /dev/sd* and /dev/hd*.

>
> > On some distros, like stock Debian, module loading isn't always
> > automatic...I remember one configuration I had where I had two sound
> > cards, and always had to manually load the driver for the second card.
> > (One was onboard AC97, the other was my then-new Sound Blaster Live)
>
> Sure.  Module loading is never guarenteed to be automatic, even
> hotplug and udev have blacklists.  In your case (stock Debian), adding
> the module name to /etc/modules would have done the trick.

That's just the thing...adding the module name there didn't help.

(not mentioning the unmentionable)

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