[vox-tech] Installing Adaptec SCSI Card

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On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 10:07:13AM -0700, Tim Riley wrote:
> dugan@passwall.com wrote:
> > AIC7000 support
> >
> > Covers many of the 29xx series... the 29 (two digits) is the important
> > part, as the rest often described the bytespeed. Not sure if it still
> > does anymore though...
> >
> > 2940 (40MB/sec), 2980 (80MB/sec), 29160 (160MB/sec)
> >
> > I do have a 2980, 29160 and both use the AIC7xxx linux driver...
> >
> 
> It finally works. The lesson learned is that adding the driver
> didn't stick across rebooting. So following was added in /etc/rc.d/rc.local:
> modprobe aic7xxx

I dont recall the status of /etc/modules in newer kernels and Debian,
but with the 2.2 series (and possibly later) /etc/modules can be
configured to specify what modules should be loaded at start. You may
want to examine this file. Modules just need to be specified by name,
one per line for loading on boot.

You may want to see if your system includes an /etc/modules text file
and then add:
aix7xxx
to one line by itself, reboot and see if it is auto-loaded.

> Thanks to all who responded and to rod@sunsetsystems.com for
> supplying the SCSI Card and drive.

HTH
-ME

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