[ale] How to put HPT372 module into the kernel at boot properly?

[Charles Marcus]

Hey Dow,

Yikes, afraid I can't help you with this one.  Have you subscribed to the
Gentoo list?  They usually respond to questions within minutes...

http://lists.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-user

Or you could go yack on the forums:

http://forums.gentoo.org/

The list isn't extremely high volume, and has lots of good info - definitely
worth it if you are gonna give Gentoo a serious look.

Charles

> From: Dow Hurst [mailto:dhurst at kennesaw.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 1:36 PM
>
> I'd like to finish my Gentoo install but have run into a
> problem.  I need to have the kernel understand my HPT372
> builtin to the motherboard controller for the two disks I
> have on the two disk controllers that the HPT372 runs.
> Currently when I boot with the initial installation CD, I
> have /dev/hde and /dev/hdg available.  /dev/hda is the DVD
> drive.  The Abit MB has IDE 1 and 2 as normal controllers
> and IDE 3 and 4 as the Raid controllers under the HPT372
> chips control.
>
> I've downloade the HPT372 source and compiled it successfully,
> but need to know how to make it part of the kernel or available
> to the kernel immediately on boot.  I know the Reiserfs module
> is inserted via initrd under SuSE.  What do I do with Gentoo?
> Grub acted strange by treating my /dev/hde and /dev/hdg as not
> existing and would recognize somehow a /dev/hda.  Bizarre with
> that.
>
> Anyway, what would be the best way to approach this?  I only
> have the two matched disks in the machine.  I could put an
> additional drive, an old 2Gb, on the IDE1 controller as /dev/hda.
> Switch the DVD drive to /dev/hdb and just load the HPT372 as a
> module after initial boot.
>
> Any advice?
> Dow


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