scsi pci vs FC2?

From: Jack Howarth (howarth_at_bromo.msbb.uc.edu)
Date: 08/09/04

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Date: Mon,  9 Aug 2004 13:26:45 -0400 (EDT)

         I am having problems with Fedora Core 2 automatically loading the
    aic7xxx driver for a newly attached Adaptec scsi controller pci card.
    I have tried two different cards. One a 2910 and the other a 2930.
    In each case when I reboot Fedora Core 2, I find that anaconda
    properly recognizes the cards by name and ask for me to configure
    the card. This appears to result in an entry of...

    alias scsi_hostadapter1 aic7xxx

    ...in /etc/modprobe.conf for both cards. However the aic7xxx
    driver doesn't seem to be loaded automatically upon rebooting
    the machine. If I manually do a '/sbin/modprobe aic7xxxx'
    the attached scsi drives appear when I do 'cat /proc/scsi/scsi'.
    Has anyone else seen this sort of problem and is there a
    clean workaround to force the driver to load at boot time?
         I would also mention that my system drive is a pair of
    sata drives configured in a software raid-1 using the sata-promise
    driver. So I need to make sure that that driver always loads first
    since it needs to be assigned the sda and sdb device names.
    I assume that booting from the system drive will insure that
    this always happens (the motherboard sata-promise loads first).
                                   Jack
    ps Is there any real difference between the Adaptec 2910 and 2930?
    Would one be a better choice for scsi-2 usage? Thanks in advance
    for any help. 

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