Second SCSI card not added at boot

Jamie Wellnitz Jamie.Wellnitz at emulex.com
Wed Jan 28 01:51:48 UTC 2004


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 at emulex.com


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