Re: autoloading sg driver during boot

[Aleksandar Milivojevic <amilivojevic pbl ca>]

Aaron M. Hirsch wrote:
> Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
>
>
> > > Probably something trivial, but can't seem to find solution (other
> > > than placing "modprobe sg" in /etc/rc.local).
> > >
> > > I attempted something like this in modprobe.conf:
> > >
> > > alias char-major-21 sg
>
> Have you checked to see what modules are loaded before you modprobe sg
> and after you modprobe sg?
>
> To get sg loading, which needs the scsi_mod loaded, I have "alias
> scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx", as I have an adaptec card, in my
> /etc/modules.conf.  After that was in there it found and created the
> proper devices in /dev upon reboot.

I also have Adaptec card (actually, it's integrated on the motherboard 
in my case).  Anaconda already placed appropriate line for aic7xxx in my 
modprobe.conf during installation (as well as several other lines for 
some other stuff).

Doing lsmod before and after the sg driver is loaded (on freshly 
rebooted system) shows that loading of sg doesn't trigger any other 
driver (all other drivers were already loaded on system boot, including 
aic7xxx and scsi_mod).

The only SCSI device connected is tape libarary (two SCSI devices, one 
for robotics, the other for tape drive).  The devices for tape drive are 
all created (st*, nst*, tape*), however device for robotics is not (that 
is why I need sg driver).  Since sg isn't loaded at boot, /dev/sg* are 
not created by udev, and I can't access the robot until I manully do 
"modprobe sg".

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