From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422907AbWJYDve (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Oct 2006 23:51:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161337AbWJYDve (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Oct 2006 23:51:34 -0400 Received: from pop-sarus.atl.sa.earthlink.net ([207.69.195.72]:47534 "EHLO pop-sarus.atl.sa.earthlink.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161335AbWJYDvd (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Oct 2006 23:51:33 -0400 Message-ID: <453EDF44.3090308@cfl.rr.com> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 23:51:32 -0400 From: Phillip Susi User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060918) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux kernel Subject: Background scan of sata drives Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I seem to recall seeing mention flow by on the lkml at some point that sata disks are now scanned in the background rather than blocking in the modprobe, but that there is a new dummy module you can load that just blocks until all drives have been scanned. I tried but was unable to find the thread that mentioned this, so does anyone know what that module was?