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Re: aha2940 problem - more detail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wang Qi)
Tue Aug 31 04:11:47 1999
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 15:33:28 +0800
From: wangq@ddc.xj.cnpc.com.cn (Wang Qi)
To: Linux-SCSI <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
Thanks for your help!
Benjamin Scott wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Wang Qi wrote:
> > What I want to say in my first mail is the kernel doesn't load the
> > module aic7xxx for my SCSI disk during the initialization, not the init
> > program. And my SCSI disk is not the boot disk. It's just a data disk.
>
> That is normal. Modules do not get initialized at boot, they are
> initialized when they are loaded. The module autoloader works by loading
> modules when needed. And nothing explicitly "uses" the SCSI host adapter at
> boot, so it will not be loaded.
>
> After the system had booted, try doing a "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/foo" or
> whatever. The kernel will see a request for SCSI and load the module. I'm
> not sure what will happen if you have multiple SCSI host adapters, but you can
> always try it and find out! :-)
>
> If you would prefer to force the module to load at startup, place the
> command "insmod aic7xxx" in your /etc/rc.d/rc.modules file.
>
> Your conf.modules file looks okay to me.
>
> --
> Benjamin Scott
> dragonhawk@iname.com
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