On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 10:50, Mike Beattie wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 09:38:42PM +1300, Paul William wrote: > > The output of lsmod follows. > ... > > ide-core 97656 7 (autoclean) [ide-scsi ide-detect > > via82cxxx trm290 triflex slc90e66 sis5513 siimage serverworks sc1200 > > rz1000 piix pdc202xx_old opti621 ns87415 hpt366 ide-disk hpt34x generic > > cy82c693 cs5530 cmd64x cmd640 amd74xx alim15x3 aec62xx adma100 > > pdc202xx_new] > > Ugh, surely your system doesnt have all of those ide interfaces?
Probably not - but the newer debian kernels (not being distro-specific or anything) have all the IDE interfaces as separate modules, which are loaded from an initrd. I understand that this has come about in 2.4.18 or thereabouts. Before .18, they were all contained inside the ide module.
