Rainer Traut
2008-Dec-28 10:45 UTC
[CentOS] C5: prevent loading of AHCI in favor of "fakeraid" megaide
Hi, I'm trying to install an old fujitsu siemens econel 50 server. It uses an Intel chipset with ICH6R sata subsystem known as fakeraid. I have configured a Raid 1 with two 160GB hds. FS and Intel both provide a driver called megaide on a driver disk to use fakeraid and here is the problem: - The readme tells me to install with the "nostorage" kernel option and I can load the megaide driver with the driver disk. - in anaconda I only see one disk sda - exactly what I want. - after installation when booting the 92.el5 kernel obviously the ahci driver is used not the megaide, LVM complains about identical PVs on sda and sdb and I can unload megaide while running the server - so megaide is not used upon reboot but ahci - megaide is inside the initrd but - probably because ahci loads first - not used Question: How can I prevent the ahci driver to load after installation? Thx Rainer PS: I know the pros and cons of fakeraid - I want to use it. Plz no discussion about this.
Ned Slider
2008-Dec-28 11:53 UTC
[CentOS] C5: prevent loading of AHCI in favor of "fakeraid" megaide
Rainer Traut wrote:> > Question: > How can I prevent the ahci driver to load after installation? >Try adding 'blacklist ahci' to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist Also check for and comment out any aliases to ahci in /etc/modprobe.conf