[vox-tech] Installing Adaptec SCSI Card

[Rod Roark]

Dunno about /etc/modules -- do you mean modules.conf?

That is one beastie I've never understood very well, mainly=20
because I don't know what all the alias names are that might=20
be used.  But in general, it modifies the behavior of
modprobe, for example specifying optional parameter values,
or prerequisite modules.

I'm pretty sure there's a way to specify your SCSI driver in
there, but usually I just put a modprobe command in the
startup scripts.  I'd love to hear more about what the Best=20
Way is.  :-)

-- Rod
   http://www.sunsetsystems.com/

On Wednesday 16 October 2002 10:14 am, dugan@passwall.com wrote:
> 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 import=
ant
> > > part, as the rest often described the bytespeed. Not sure if it sti=
ll
> > > 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