2 # Block device driver configuration
10 Say Y here to get to see options for various different block device
11 drivers. This option alone does not add any kernel code.
13 If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and disabled;
14 only do this if you know what you are doing.
19 tristate "Normal floppy disk support"
20 depends on ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC
22 If you want to use the floppy disk drive(s) of your PC under Linux,
23 say Y. Information about this driver, especially important for IBM
24 Thinkpad users, is contained in <file:Documentation/floppy.txt>.
25 That file also contains the location of the Floppy driver FAQ as
26 well as location of the fdutils package used to configure additional
27 parameters of the driver at run time.
29 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
30 module will be called floppy.
33 tristate "Amiga floppy support"
37 tristate "Atari floppy support"
41 tristate "Support for PowerMac floppy"
42 depends on PPC_PMAC && !PPC_PMAC64
44 If you have a SWIM-3 (Super Woz Integrated Machine 3; from Apple)
45 floppy controller, say Y here. Most commonly found in PowerMacs.
48 tristate "Amiga Zorro II ramdisk support"
51 This enables support for using Chip RAM and Zorro II RAM as a
52 ramdisk or as a swap partition. Say Y if you want to include this
55 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
56 module will be called z2ram.
59 tristate "XT hard disk support"
60 depends on ISA && ISA_DMA_API
61 select CHECK_SIGNATURE
63 Very old 8 bit hard disk controllers used in the IBM XT computer
64 will be supported if you say Y here.
66 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
67 module will be called xd.
69 It's pretty unlikely that you have one of these: say N.
72 tristate "Parallel port IDE device support"
75 There are many external CD-ROM and disk devices that connect through
76 your computer's parallel port. Most of them are actually IDE devices
77 using a parallel port IDE adapter. This option enables the PARIDE
78 subsystem which contains drivers for many of these external drives.
79 Read <file:Documentation/paride.txt> for more information.
81 If you have said Y to the "Parallel-port support" configuration
82 option, you may share a single port between your printer and other
83 parallel port devices. Answer Y to build PARIDE support into your
84 kernel, or M if you would like to build it as a loadable module. If
85 your parallel port support is in a loadable module, you must build
86 PARIDE as a module. If you built PARIDE support into your kernel,
87 you may still build the individual protocol modules and high-level
88 drivers as loadable modules. If you build this support as a module,
89 it will be called paride.
91 To use the PARIDE support, you must say Y or M here and also to at
92 least one high-level driver (e.g. "Parallel port IDE disks",
93 "Parallel port ATAPI CD-ROMs", "Parallel port ATAPI disks" etc.) and
94 to at least one protocol driver (e.g. "ATEN EH-100 protocol",
95 "MicroSolutions backpack protocol", "DataStor Commuter protocol"
99 tristate "SEGA Dreamcast GD-ROM drive"
100 depends on SH_DREAMCAST
102 A standard SEGA Dreamcast comes with a modified CD ROM drive called a
103 "GD-ROM" by SEGA to signify it is capable of reading special disks
104 with up to 1 GB of data. This drive will also read standard CD ROM
105 disks. Select this option to access any disks in your GD ROM drive.
106 Most users will want to say "Y" here.
107 You can also build this as a module which will be called gdrom.ko
109 source "drivers/block/paride/Kconfig"
112 tristate "Compaq SMART2 support"
113 depends on PCI && VIRT_TO_BUS
115 This is the driver for Compaq Smart Array controllers. Everyone
116 using these boards should say Y here. See the file
117 <file:Documentation/cpqarray.txt> for the current list of boards
118 supported by this driver, and for further information on the use of
121 config BLK_CPQ_CISS_DA
122 tristate "Compaq Smart Array 5xxx support"
125 This is the driver for Compaq Smart Array 5xxx controllers.
126 Everyone using these boards should say Y here.
127 See <file:Documentation/cciss.txt> for the current list of
128 boards supported by this driver, and for further information
129 on the use of this driver.
131 config CISS_SCSI_TAPE
132 bool "SCSI tape drive support for Smart Array 5xxx"
133 depends on BLK_CPQ_CISS_DA && PROC_FS
134 depends on SCSI=y || SCSI=BLK_CPQ_CISS_DA
136 When enabled (Y), this option allows SCSI tape drives and SCSI medium
137 changers (tape robots) to be accessed via a Compaq 5xxx array
138 controller. (See <file:Documentation/cciss.txt> for more details.)
140 "SCSI support" and "SCSI tape support" must also be enabled for this
143 When this option is disabled (N), the SCSI portion of the driver
146 config BLK_DEV_DAC960
147 tristate "Mylex DAC960/DAC1100 PCI RAID Controller support"
150 This driver adds support for the Mylex DAC960, AcceleRAID, and
151 eXtremeRAID PCI RAID controllers. See the file
152 <file:Documentation/README.DAC960> for further information about
155 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
156 module will be called DAC960.
159 tristate "Micro Memory MM5415 Battery Backed RAM support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
160 depends on PCI && EXPERIMENTAL
162 Saying Y here will include support for the MM5415 family of
163 battery backed (Non-volatile) RAM cards.
164 <http://www.umem.com/>
166 The cards appear as block devices that can be partitioned into
167 as many as 15 partitions.
169 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
170 module will be called umem.
172 The umem driver has not yet been allocated a MAJOR number, so
173 one is chosen dynamically.
176 bool "Virtual block device"
179 The User-Mode Linux port includes a driver called UBD which will let
180 you access arbitrary files on the host computer as block devices.
181 Unless you know that you do not need such virtual block devices say
184 config BLK_DEV_UBD_SYNC
185 bool "Always do synchronous disk IO for UBD"
186 depends on BLK_DEV_UBD
188 Writes to the virtual block device are not immediately written to the
189 host's disk; this may cause problems if, for example, the User-Mode
190 Linux 'Virtual Machine' uses a journalling filesystem and the host
193 Synchronous operation (i.e. always writing data to the host's disk
194 immediately) is configurable on a per-UBD basis by using a special
195 kernel command line option. Alternatively, you can say Y here to
196 turn on synchronous operation by default for all block devices.
198 If you're running a journalling file system (like reiserfs, for
199 example) in your virtual machine, you will want to say Y here. If
200 you care for the safety of the data in your virtual machine, Y is a
201 wise choice too. In all other cases (for example, if you're just
202 playing around with User-Mode Linux) you can choose N.
204 config BLK_DEV_COW_COMMON
209 tristate "Loopback device support"
211 Saying Y here will allow you to use a regular file as a block
212 device; you can then create a file system on that block device and
213 mount it just as you would mount other block devices such as hard
214 drive partitions, CD-ROM drives or floppy drives. The loop devices
215 are block special device files with major number 7 and typically
216 called /dev/loop0, /dev/loop1 etc.
218 This is useful if you want to check an ISO 9660 file system before
219 burning the CD, or if you want to use floppy images without first
220 writing them to floppy. Furthermore, some Linux distributions avoid
221 the need for a dedicated Linux partition by keeping their complete
222 root file system inside a DOS FAT file using this loop device
225 To use the loop device, you need the losetup utility, found in the
226 util-linux package, see
227 <ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/>.
229 The loop device driver can also be used to "hide" a file system in
230 a disk partition, floppy, or regular file, either using encryption
231 (scrambling the data) or steganography (hiding the data in the low
232 bits of, say, a sound file). This is also safe if the file resides
233 on a remote file server.
235 There are several ways of encrypting disks. Some of these require
236 kernel patches. The vanilla kernel offers the cryptoloop option
237 and a Device Mapper target (which is superior, as it supports all
238 file systems). If you want to use the cryptoloop, say Y to both
239 LOOP and CRYPTOLOOP, and make sure you have a recent (version 2.12
240 or later) version of util-linux. Additionally, be aware that
241 the cryptoloop is not safe for storing journaled filesystems.
243 Note that this loop device has nothing to do with the loopback
244 device used for network connections from the machine to itself.
246 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
247 module will be called loop.
249 Most users will answer N here.
251 config BLK_DEV_CRYPTOLOOP
252 tristate "Cryptoloop Support"
255 depends on BLK_DEV_LOOP
257 Say Y here if you want to be able to use the ciphers that are
258 provided by the CryptoAPI as loop transformation. This might be
259 used as hard disk encryption.
261 WARNING: This device is not safe for journaled file systems like
262 ext3 or Reiserfs. Please use the Device Mapper crypto module
263 instead, which can be configured to be on-disk compatible with the
267 tristate "Network block device support"
270 Saying Y here will allow your computer to be a client for network
271 block devices, i.e. it will be able to use block devices exported by
272 servers (mount file systems on them etc.). Communication between
273 client and server works over TCP/IP networking, but to the client
274 program this is hidden: it looks like a regular local file access to
275 a block device special file such as /dev/nd0.
277 Network block devices also allows you to run a block-device in
278 userland (making server and client physically the same computer,
279 communicating using the loopback network device).
281 Read <file:Documentation/nbd.txt> for more information, especially
282 about where to find the server code, which runs in user space and
283 does not need special kernel support.
285 Note that this has nothing to do with the network file systems NFS
286 or Coda; you can say N here even if you intend to use NFS or Coda.
288 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
289 module will be called nbd.
294 tristate "Promise SATA SX8 support"
297 Saying Y or M here will enable support for the
298 Promise SATA SX8 controllers.
300 Use devices /dev/sx8/$N and /dev/sx8/$Np$M.
303 tristate "Low Performance USB Block driver"
306 This driver supports certain USB attached storage devices
309 If you enable this driver, it is recommended to avoid conflicts
310 with usb-storage by enabling USB_LIBUSUAL.
315 tristate "RAM block device support"
317 Saying Y here will allow you to use a portion of your RAM memory as
318 a block device, so that you can make file systems on it, read and
319 write to it and do all the other things that you can do with normal
320 block devices (such as hard drives). It is usually used to load and
321 store a copy of a minimal root file system off of a floppy into RAM
322 during the initial install of Linux.
324 Note that the kernel command line option "ramdisk=XX" is now
325 obsolete. For details, read <file:Documentation/ramdisk.txt>.
327 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
328 module will be called rd.
330 Most normal users won't need the RAM disk functionality, and can
333 config BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT
334 int "Default number of RAM disks"
336 depends on BLK_DEV_RAM
338 The default value is 16 RAM disks. Change this if you know what you
339 are doing. If you boot from a filesystem that needs to be extracted
340 in memory, you will need at least one RAM disk (e.g. root on cramfs).
342 config BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE
343 int "Default RAM disk size (kbytes)"
344 depends on BLK_DEV_RAM
347 The default value is 4096 kilobytes. Only change this if you know
351 bool "Support XIP filesystems on RAM block device"
352 depends on BLK_DEV_RAM
355 Support XIP filesystems (such as ext2 with XIP support on) on
356 top of block ram device. This will slightly enlarge the kernel, and
357 will prevent RAM block device backing store memory from being
358 allocated from highmem (only a problem for highmem systems).
361 tristate "Packet writing on CD/DVD media"
364 If you have a CDROM/DVD drive that supports packet writing, say
365 Y to include support. It should work with any MMC/Mt Fuji
366 compliant ATAPI or SCSI drive, which is just about any newer
369 Currently only writing to CD-RW, DVD-RW, DVD+RW and DVDRAM discs
371 DVD-RW disks must be in restricted overwrite mode.
373 See the file <file:Documentation/cdrom/packet-writing.txt>
374 for further information on the use of this driver.
376 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
377 module will be called pktcdvd.
379 config CDROM_PKTCDVD_BUFFERS
380 int "Free buffers for data gathering"
381 depends on CDROM_PKTCDVD
384 This controls the maximum number of active concurrent packets. More
385 concurrent packets can increase write performance, but also require
386 more memory. Each concurrent packet will require approximately 64Kb
387 of non-swappable kernel memory, memory which will be allocated when
388 a disc is opened for writing.
390 config CDROM_PKTCDVD_WCACHE
391 bool "Enable write caching (EXPERIMENTAL)"
392 depends on CDROM_PKTCDVD && EXPERIMENTAL
394 If enabled, write caching will be set for the CD-R/W device. For now
395 this option is dangerous unless the CD-RW media is known good, as we
396 don't do deferred write error handling yet.
399 tristate "ATA over Ethernet support"
402 This driver provides Support for ATA over Ethernet block
403 devices like the Coraid EtherDrive (R) Storage Blade.
406 tristate "Sun Virtual Disk Client support"
409 Support for virtual disk devices as a client under Sun
412 source "drivers/s390/block/Kconfig"
415 tristate "Xilinx SystemACE support"
418 Include support for the Xilinx SystemACE CompactFlash interface
420 config XEN_BLKDEV_FRONTEND
421 tristate "Xen virtual block device support"
425 This driver implements the front-end of the Xen virtual
426 block device driver. It communicates with a back-end driver
427 in another domain which drives the actual block device.
430 tristate "Virtio block driver (EXPERIMENTAL)"
431 depends on EXPERIMENTAL && VIRTIO
433 This is the virtual block driver for virtio. It can be used with
434 lguest or QEMU based VMMs (like KVM or Xen). Say Y or M.