In article , Dan Ganek wrote:
> We ran into a problem when adding an Adaptec 2930
> scsi controller card to our machines. The kernel
> doesn't automatically install the aic7xxx module.
> Everything I've read seems to imply that all we have
> to do is add a line like:
>
> alias scsi_hostadapter1 aic7xxx
>
> to /etc/modules.conf and everything should just work.
> (Actually kudzu added the line for us.) But when we
> reboot it doesn't load the module. So, we end up
> having to manually (via an rc script) do an insmod.
>
> However, if we re-install Linux with the card already
> installed everything works as it should.

In my /etc/modules.conf, my entry simply reads:

alias scsi_hostadapter ncr53c8xx

I'm not familiar with "scsi_hostadapter1".

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Dave Brown Austin, TX

Dan Ganek wrote:
> We ran into a problem when adding an Adaptec 2930
> scsi controller card to our machines. The kernel
> doesn't automatically install the aic7xxx module.
> Everything I've read seems to imply that all we have
> to do is add a line like:
>
> alias scsi_hostadapter1 aic7xxx
>
> to /etc/modules.conf and everything should just work.
> (Actually kudzu added the line for us.) But when we
> reboot it doesn't load the module. So, we end up
> having to manually (via an rc script) do an insmod.
>
> However, if we re-install Linux with the card already
> installed everything works as it should.
>
> The distro is RH 7.3 (2.4 kernel) and we have an HP
> DAT drive attached to the controller.
>
> What am I missing?
>
> /dan
>

You still gotta make a new initrd-file.
Kudzu _assumes_ that initrd will contain the required module.
-pbh-