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Re: What do I do next?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles R. Anderson)
Wed Jan 27 14:36:06 1999

Date:	Wed, 27 Jan 1999 12:39:33 -0500 (EST)
From: "Charles R. Anderson" <cra@angus.ind.WPI.EDU>
To: "David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>
Cc: Linux-SCSI mailist <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: <011c01be4a11$3748f420$153095cd@visnt021.vis.crc.com>

On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, David C. Hoos, Sr. wrote:

david.> When I tried to mount the drive (containing a Windoze ZIP disk)
david.> with the command
david.>   mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /zip
david.> I received the response:
david.> 
david.> mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda4 as a block device
david.>        (maybe `insmod driver'?)

You need to load the SCSI Disk driver, sd.o:

/sbin/modprobe sd

I believe you can put this in /etc/conf.modules:

alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx

and the drivers will load automatically when you access /dev/sda4,
but I haven't tested this in a while.

Charles R. Anderson
http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/


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