Hi Paul -- You said: > My CD is on a SB16 card. I've told the new kernel > NOT to load modules (N to kerneld) and somehow, what is now > happening is SB driver loads during boot, and then later in the > boot process I see loading modules, and you guessed it, it loads > sbpcd as a module also! The modules listed in /etc/modules will be loaded during boot time whether or not kerneld has been enabled.
> Only the module doesn't see the line > passed to the kernel specifying the parameters for sbpcd, so it > polls for every darn possible address and clone drive! Now my > systems takes about ten minutes to boot! >From the documentation in /usr/doc/modules, I would infer you have to put a line like sbpcd irq=NNN io=NNN into /etc/conf.modules. Maybe you have to give sbpcd a number like sbpcd1; I don't know. I'm also not sure of which particular arguments are accepted by this module, but I'd guess they can be deduced from the kernel sources. HTH? Susan Kleinmann