[Gllug] modprobe and SCSI devices.

Andrew Halliwell ah at gnd.com
Tue Feb 25 16:26:22 UTC 2003


And verily, didst Nick Warrington announce to the hordes:
> 
> Hi
> 
> I have just bought a SCSI card and shoved it in my old pentium box to get a
> tape drive working. From the command line I can use modprobe with the module
> name as a parameter, the module seems to load and  the devices in /dev
> appear such as /dev/st0 etc.
> 
> Now, after a reboot the entries in /dev are not there, so evidently the
> module is not being loaded on boot. 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?

change 
alias scsi_hostadapter off
to
alias scsi_hostadapter scsi_module_name

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