Newbie: Why won't the scsi driver load automatically w/modprobe?

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Date: 05/22/05

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    Date: 21 May 2005 20:47:18 -0700

    I have a Dell 1600sc server running RHEL4; it's got SCSI RAID onboard.
    I recently added a scsi tape drive using a seperate AHA-2940UW card
    (drive was SE and onboard is only LVD). I can get card and tape to work
    if I *manually* load the drivers via modprobe or insmod, eg:

    modprobe aic7xxx
    (this then also does an automatic "insmod st" as well)

    My question - why isn't this happening automatically at boot
    time when modprobe runs? My modprobe.conf seems reasonable:

    alias eth0 e1000
    alias usb-controller ohci-hcd
    alias scsi_hostadapter mptbase
    alias scsi_hostadapter1 mptscsih
    alias scsi_hostadapter2 megaraid_mbox
    alias scsi_hostadapter3 aic7xxx

    (no, I'm not sure why the onboard SCSI raid takes three different
    lines...but according to lsmod they all seem to be getting loaded.)

    I also tried adding this to modprobe.conf (as recommended by a RH
    knowledgebase doc)- no effect:

      install scsi_hostadapter3 /sbin/modprobe aic7xxx

    I don't see any errors at boot time, nor does anything appear related
    to modprobe or the aic7xxx in /var/messages.

    TIA for any pointers/advice.

    /jdr/

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