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

From: Dan Ganek (degspam_at_comcast.net)
Date: 05/23/05

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    Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 21:38:14 -0400

    thatseattleguy@hotmail.com wrote:
    > 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/
    >

    You need to remake initrd. man mkinitrd.

    /dan

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