[Gllug] modprobe and SCSI devices.

[Nick Warrington]

Thanks for all your responses. I shall rush home tonight and try some of
your suggestions and let you all know how I get on.

Nick 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Xander D Harkness [mailto:xander at harkness.co.uk]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 3:36 PM
> To: gllug at linux.co.uk
> Subject: Re: [Gllug] modprobe and SCSI devices.
> 
> 
> Tethys wrote:
> > Nick Warrington writes:
> > 
> > 
> >>As I understood it, the devfs would autodetect the device and add an
> >>entry for me on boot. Do I need to add a line in modules.conf and if
> >>so what should it look like?
> > 
> > 
> > Devfs has so far fallen into the "just say no" bucket for me, so I
> > can't comment on that. However, adding a line like:
> > 
> > 	alias scsi_hostadapter dc395x_trm
> > 
> > into /etc/modules.conf may work. Obviously, change 
> dc395x_trm for the
> > particular SCSI driver you're using.
> agreed, on the server I have a tape drive on I have the following:
> 
> cat /etc/modules.conf
> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
> alias eth0 natsemi
> alias usb-controller usb-ohci
> alias eth1 8139too
> alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx
> 
> 
> the device /dev/st0 is created once the tape device is 
> plugged in (and 
> terminated)  :-)
> 
> Kind regards
> Xander
> 
> 
> 
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