[TriLUG] Configuring disks under Linux

[Tom Bryan]

On Tuesday 25 September 2001 08:22 am, you wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Tom Bryan wrote:
> > The motherboard (ABit KT7A-RAID) book says that it's a VIA Apollo KT133A
> > chipset.  (It also has a HighPoint HPT370 that I'm not currently using.
>
> So you're using/need VIA options: CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX=y (in 2.4). I'm
> also using that northbridge chipset.
>
> > Believe it or not, I've run and maintained my boxes since 1998 without
> > ever mucking with/recompiling the kernel. :)  How do I check that support
> > for it is compiled into the kernel?
>
> On my Debian sid machine, I do: `grep VIA
> /boot/config-2.4.9-ac12`. Basically grep for "CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX" in
> your kernel .config file. I believe most modern distros put it in /boot .

On a RedHat box, it looks like /usr/src/linux-2.4/configs/ is the place to 
grep.  

---Tom