Hugo Vanwoerkom:
> 
> But that the combination of 'Y's and 'M's is immaterial as to the  
> functioning of the driver.
> 
> Am I correct?

Generally yes. There are modules which are better compiled statically
(IDE/S-ATA, filesystems) but they work either way.

> This in regard to trying to get smartctl to work with my external USB  
> ATA drive. Which works OK with the debian kernel but not in my own  
> compiled one.

Are you sure you could successfully run smartctl no a drive attached via
USB? As fas as I know, SMART values cannot be read from a device if it
is attached to a USB port.

J.
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I think the environment will be okay.
[Agree]   [Disagree]
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