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Re: Adding 2nd SCSI card to /etc/conf.modules
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jose M. Sanchez)
Thu Oct 15 17:00:34 1998
Reply-To: "Jose M. Sanchez" <opjose@ex-pressnet.com>
From: "Jose M. Sanchez" <opjose@ex-pressnet.com>
To: <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Cc: <qcoldiron@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 17:11:03 -0400
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-----Original Message-----
From: Quinn Coldiron <qcoldiron@yahoo.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Thursday, October 15, 1998 8:24 AM
Subject: Adding 2nd SCSI card to /etc/conf.modules
>In the past I have added a 2nd SCSI card to systems by adding an
>"insmod driver name" to my rc.local file. While this works, it is
>less that desirable since fstab is processed before rc.local, so I
>can't add the drives on the 2nd card to fstab.
>
>After looking in the conf.modules file I see that when I setup the
>system, it put alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx in for me. I have an
>NCR card I'm gonna add to the system, so I looked in another machine
>that is running this card and it has alias scsi_hostadapter ncr53c8xx
>in it's conf.modules.
>
>Now, I know I just can't add the 2nd alias to the box's config files,
>so what is the "correct" way to add the modules for the 2nd SCSI card?
>
>Quinn
The correct way, is to add the 2nd alias to the box's config files.
Specifically the /etc/conf.modules
This forces a load at boot time.
You'll also need to make a new initrd image to replace the existing one then
run lilo.
-JMS
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