udev vs SATA Drives

[Collins Richey]

On 2/11/06, Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:
> Ugh. I have a SATA drive -- works fine once it is mounted. For the
> purposes of the current issue, I have sata_sil, the driver for my SATA
> controller, compiled statically into the kernel (i.e., sata_sil isn't a
> loadable module).
>

Don't know whether this is your problem or not, but at work we found
that the sata_sil driver will not work (at least in our Dell boxes)
compiled as built in.  The only way we could get the driver to work
was to compile as module and use an initrd.

HTH,

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Collins Richey
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