Re: Second SCSI card not added at boot

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 01:35:56AM +0100, T. Ribbrock wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> in my FC1 box, I've had an Adaptec SCSI controller for quite some time
> (first a 2940U2W, now a 29160) - all is working fine.
> To be able to use my Umax Powerlook 2000 SCSI scanner, I've added a
> second SCSI card, a generic Symbios 53c810 card. The second card was
> detected and configured by kudzu and the following entry was added to
> /etc/modules.conf :
> 
> alias scsi_hostadapter1 ncr53c8xx
> 
> However, on boot, the Symbios card is not detected and no driver is
> added. Once I run "modprobe -a scsi_hostadapter1" manually after booting
> has completed, the card and the scanner are correctly detected and work
> just fine.
> 
> Hence my question: Why does that entry in /etc/modules.conf not work?

Have you tried rebuilding your initial ramdisk (via mkinitrd)?  It
reads the /etc/modules.conf file and loads the SCSI drivers into the
initrd.

> 
> Cheerio,
> 
> Thomas
> -- 

Regards,
Jamie Wellnitz
Jamie.Wellnitz@xxxxxxxxxx


> ===> Netiquette - read it, use it: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html <===
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                 Thomas Ribbrock    http://www.ribbrock.org 
>   "You have to live on the edge of reality - to make your dreams come true!"
> 
> 
> -- 
> fedora-list mailing list
> fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list




[Index of Archives]     [Current Fedora Users]     [Fedora Desktop]     [Fedora SELinux]     [Yosemite News]     [Yosemite Photos]     [KDE Users]     [Fedora Tools]     [Fedora Docs]

  Powered by Linux