Which SCSI module to switch to?

[Oliver Leitner]

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neidorff wrote:

| On 6/4/05, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
|
|> On Sat, 2005-06-04 at 11:14 -0400, neidorff wrote:
|>
|>> On 6/4/05, Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote:
|>>
|>>> On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 10:27:20AM -0400, neidorff wrote:
|>>>
|>>>> I've been using a Buslogic SCSI controller for years.  It
|>>>> is now starting to flake out (random SCSI errors) and I
|>>>> have gotten an Adaptec AHA2940U2B/18M to replace it.  The
|>>>> adaptec chip says AIC-7890AB on it.  I'm using FC3 fully
|>>>> patched up.  Which kernel module should I be loading to
|>>>> support this controller?
|>>>
|>>> aic7xxx should do it.
|>>>
|>> Thanks.  I know I should have put this in with my original
|>> question....but.... where do I put the aic7xxx line?  The
|>> closest thing that I found in /etc was in modeprobe.conf which
|>> now looks like this:
|>
|> That's "modprobe.conf", not "modeprobe.conf"...
|>
|>> alias eth0 3c59x alias eth1 tulip alias scsi_hostadapter
|>> BusLogic alias snd-card-0 snd-cmipci options snd-card-0 index=0
|>>  install snd-cmipci /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-cmipci
|>> && /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || : remove
|>> snd-cmipci { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; };
|>> /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-cmipci alias
|>> usb-controller uhci-hcd
|>>
|>> Do I change BusLogic in the "alias scsi_hostadapter"  line to
|>> "Adaptec"?  Does that trigger picking up the right module?  Or
|>> do I change it to "aic7xxx"?
|>
|> That would be "aic7xxx". But you could first try out this module
|> to make sure it's the right one, by just running "/sbin/modprobe
|> aic7xxx" (as root of course). This should cause appropriate
|> messages in /var/log/messages to appear regarding the detection
|> of your card and some of the devices attached to it, and possibly
|> also device entries in /dev.
|>
|> Paul.
|
|
| Well, when I replace the buslogic card with the adaptec card, I
| still get a kernel panic even after editing modprobe.conf ! It sill
| loads the buslogic module.  Now I really don't know where the
| system is picking this up from.  This happens before the
| "Interactive startup" section of booting.  Will someone please tell
| me how I can get out of this mess?
|
| Thanks,
|
| Mark
|

Dear Mark Neidorff
have you tried an rmmod modulename && insmod -f newmodule && depmod ?

maybe this'll help you further...

Greetings
Oliver Leitner
Technical Staff
http://www.shells.at
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