-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Bill Freeman hath spake thusly: > I added an Adaptec AHA1542 and a Jaz drive to it (to have > enough room for a local iso image). Kudzu (or whatever checks "for > new hardware") didn't notice, nor did the hardware browser. [SNIP] > modules.conf, but while I can now modprobe scsi_hostadapter to get the > driver loaded, it doesn't get automaticly picked up via kmod if I just > try to mount the Jaz disk. > > Groveling around in the HOWTOs mentions that kerneld/kmod > won't manage to load things up if you have two host adapters. I guess > that's what's happening here between ide-scsi and aha1542. ide-scsi > seems to have been loaded at boot time, so when mount goes looking > for /dev/sda4, it looks for it on that controller, rather than loading > scsi_hostadapter. The same HOWTO gives an ugly solution involving > hand editing your moduels.dep, and forgoing depmod -a at boot time.
If memory serves, the AHA 1542 SCSI card is an ISA PnP card. I think at least part of the problem is the way the kernel deals with PnP support... In order for it to load the modue for this card, you probably need to configure it properly using the isapnptools. I may be mistaken here, as I've never had to deal with this type of problem... I've always used whatever ISA cards I've had in jumpered mode. If the howto recommends the above solution, then there's probably a good reason for it. However, whenever dealing with a problem like this, and specifically dealing with I/O drivers related to hard drives, my solution has always been to recompile my kernel so that it contains the module in question compiled in, rather than compiled as a module. If you do this, your AHA 1542 will always be detected at boot time, and you won't have to insmod anything. IMO, this is the "right" way to handle it. I'll add though that the "right" way is whatever works best for you... As with most things, there's more than one way to do it. - -- Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] - --------------------------------------------- I prefer mail encrypted with PGP/GPG! GnuPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D Retrieve my public key at http://pgp.mit.edu Learn more about it at http://www.gnupg.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9FKe0djdlQoHP510RAqdOAKCPryT+oxrxYrlub8mU9ajL2VcB4ACeNUJr HzUxR9/ab66V4J96RQgwrEo= =0ctd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
