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Promise SATA150 TX4 Linux 2.6

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Ynog

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Recently I purchased a Promise SATA controller card.

Now, the module that comes with the Linux 2.6 kernel seems to work just fine.
However in order to load the module I need to modprobe sata_promise.
Then mount the drive.

I'm looking for a way to get it autoload the module and then be able to put the
drive connected to it in the fstab file. What would you add to the modprobe.conf
file to do this.

Thanks in advance
 
Originally posted by: silverpig
Maybe sticking the module into

/etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6

is what you want?
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Quick question. The system I am on is a FC 2 system that was upgraded from a FC 1 system.

I have no /etc/modules.autoload.d/ directory, let alone a kernel-2.6.
Can this just be added and what is the format of the kernel-2.6 file?
 
hmmm, I haven't run fedora and can't even remember playing with redhat much, but on my gentoo system there's a file with that name and you can just list the names of the modules you want loaded on boot. So the format of the file is just a list.

/begin kernel-2.6

3c59x
nvidia_agp
fglrx

/end kernel-2.6

and that's my file.

Oh, actually I think I remembered how it all works in gentoo. We use the /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 file to list our modules. Then we do a modules-update and a script take the modules listed in there and puts them into modules.conf IIRC. Not in linux right now so I can't be sure, but yeah, you just have to find the file where your OS looks to load modules on boot and add the right one in there. Google will probably tell you what file you need.
 
I have this card and I happily run Gentoo off of a 36GB Raptor connected to this card.

While I haven't tried Fedora nor Mandrake in a while, I can tell you that I needed the support for this controller built into the kernel versus loading it as a module. I think that this is primarily because I boot off of a drive connected to the controller. I'm not totally sure how FC and Mandrake circumvented issues, if they're using modules (I know Mandrake used a module with 2.4 kernels to support this card in earlier versions; I don't know what they did with 2.6 kernels).

The only reason why I went with Gentoo is because their installer had a 2.6 kernel with built-in support for this controller. I'm hoping that KNOPPIX will get this level of support soon, even though Gentoo isn't bad at all.

-SUO, preferring a Debian-like way of life
 
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