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How to stop etch kernel probing for hda and hdb ?

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Hi

My system has SCSI hard drives and an IDE cdrom.
The system is running etch with the default 2.6 kernel.
Several times during boot, the kernel wastes time probing for non-existant hda and hdb disks. The messages generated include:

hda: IRQ probe failed (0xffff69f8) hda: no response (status - 0x0a)

To stop the kernel wasting its time probing for hda and hdb, I have created a "/etc/modprobe.d/options" file that contains the line:

options ide_generic ide0=noprobe

but that does not stop the probing.

Without recompiling the kernel, how can I stop the kernel probing for hda and hdb at boot up ?

Thanks.

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How to stop etch kernel

Submitted by pinniped on Sat, 2007-04-21 17:33.

You may have to check the udev scripts; they may be a bit stupid and set to check for hda and such just because an IDE interface is detected.

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udev

Submitted by declanmullen on Sun, 2007-04-22 06:08.

I had a look at /etc/udev/ and /lib/udev/ but i did not understand much of what i saw. Thanks for the pointer though.

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