Re: Problems with SCSI support on Red Hat Work Station 3 Update 1

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Stuart Sears wrote:
> On Sunday 01 February 2004 04:55, tomncc3 wrote:
>
> > How do you get SCSI support with Red Hat Work Station 3?  This seems rather
> > "odd" that the Enterprise version of the operating system couldn't handle a
> > fairly standard SCSI controller, where the other "free" versions could.  I
> > am looking through the docs to see what I might have done wrong, but I
> > can't see anything.  Did RH drop support for this controller for the
> > Enterprise version?
>
> no, but they have shifted a lot of kernel modules into a 'kernel-unsupported' 
> rpm. just install the one that matches your kernel

Can you "modprobe" the device to get the driver to load?  If so, and you
want the card active at bootup, you MUST make sure the initrd image has
the driver installed.  Building a kernel (or installing one) will not
force the driver to be loaded into the initrd image.  To do this, two
conditions must be met:

	1)  There must be an "alias scsi_hostadapter driver-name" in
	the /etc/modules.conf file

	2a) You must have a filesystem from the SCSI drive in question
	in /etc/fstab that must be mounted at boot

	OR

	2b) You must tell mkinitrd to force-load the driver by using the
	"--with=module-name" option.
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