Thanks Charles
I took your advice and rebuilt the kernel with aic7xxx support. Everything is
working fine now. I must have hosed something up before.
Thanks again
Darryl
Charles Curley wrote:
> The relevant portions of my conf.modules looks like:
>
> alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx
>
> and that works correctly, so I don't think that's your problem.
>
> If you are trying to boot to the SCSI HA, you need to recompile. The
> driver may remain a module, but if you leave it as a module, be sure the
> recompilation process has produced new initrd and module-info files in
> /boot. If you use loadlin, be sure to copy those to your loadlin
> partition. For LILO, re-run lilo to get the new kernel built in to the
> loader.
>
> I'd build the driver into the kernel; it's easier.
>
> On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 02:48:59PM +0000, Darryl White wrote:
> -> Hello
> ->
> -> I have completed the installation of a Adaptec 2940 Ultra 2 SCSI pci
> -> card and a IBM xxxx hard drive (on MDK 6.0). I set the partitions up,
> -> did a modprobe aic7xxx, set the mount points, mount and everything works
> ->
> -> fine. This manual process works. My problem is the automatic
> -> routines. I set my info in fstab, configure the conf.modules file with
> -> the "alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx" save and reboot. The system comes
> ->
> -> up with errors because it can't find my card. Could someone tell me
> -> what I am doing wrong. The manual insmod/modprobe stuff works fine.
> -> The conf.modules configuration is not working for me. There is no
> -> mention of the card being detected in the logs. Your help would be
> -> greatly appreciated.
> ->
> -> Thanks
> -> Darryl
> ->
>
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