Installing drivers on Red Hat 8.0 Adaptec SCSI Host Adapter?
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# cd /lib/modules/2.4.18-14/kernel/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx
# insmod aic79xx.o
Here's the error that I get:
"aic79xx.o: init_module: No such device
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg"
Are you certain it's not already supported as-is? RedHat 8.0 uses a pretty new kernel with support for a *lot* of Adaptec SCSI cards built in already. I recently installed it on a machine with an Adaptec U320 SCSI Chipset which was *not* supported in the kernel already and did have to load a _driver_ to get it going. Anything older than that though has been supported straight up so far that I've found. Put the card in, boot from the stock RH 8.0 kernek, type "dmesg" to be sure you don't find a reference to the card. Remember also that there have been 3 or 4 kernel updates since RH 8.0 came out. Latest is 2.4.18-19.8.0 or something like that I think. Upgrade to the latest kernel first since it might have added support for that chipset where the stock kernel didn't.
I don't have that model, but mine shows this in dmesg, I didn't do anything special. However I dont have a tape drive on it, so I don't know. I just have a CD on mine
AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.8
just make sure you have this in /etc/modules.conf
alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx
then run modprobe aic7xxx
then depmod -ae
Of course that's just the adapter
if the adapter was not loading on boot doing that should fix that problem, so next boot the tape deck should be in dmesg. It may not be st0
Last edited by DavidPhillips; 12-25-2002 at 10:24 PM.
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