Loading driver for ata100 card at boot-time

Oraly · 01-15-2003, 09:39 AM

Just installed SuSE 8.1 which works great except that I can't seem too get my ata100 (Highpoint Rocket133) card to load when I boot my machine.
I compiled the driver and it works. When I run insmod or modprobe manually I can mount my disks. But I don't want to do that everytime I restart my machine.
I've even run the install command to install the driver in the system:
install -d /lib/modules/.../scsi
install -c hpt302.o /lib/modules/.../scsi

Got any ideas?

In SuSE 7.x and 8.0 this worked just fine, and now in SuSE 8.1 I can't access FAT disks unless I'm root. This I find a bit odd.

All help or ideas openly accepted!

mcleodnine · 01-15-2003, 02:14 PM

Add '/sbin/modprobe modulename options' to the /etc/init.d/boot.local script.

SuSE 8.1 added this to my /etc/fstab as the options to mount the windows poartition users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=iso8859-1,code=437 0 0

I prefer to use the 'noauto,users' instead. It won;t get mounted on boot but users can mount it.

Oraly · 01-15-2003, 03:04 PM

Well to load the module via boot.local seemed to work ok, but when the drives in fstab was supposed to be loaded the reply from system is that fschk was not run properly last time, and the system panics.

It also says that it can't load module "block-major-8" which is an option I have to set in /etc/modules.conf

Any idea how to solve this?

mcleodnine · 01-15-2003, 03:17 PM

What else did you mess with in fstab???

Oraly · 01-16-2003, 04:59 AM

It's not that I've been messing with fstab that is my problem. I know what is supposed to be in there. My problem is that I had to compile the driver for my ata100 card from teh vendor's scource code. This means that I have to find out which settings I have to put where for my card to be properly integrated with my system.
In SuSE 7.x and 8.0 This was done by putting these lines in /etc/modules.conf:
- probeall block-major-8 scsi_mod sd_mod hpt302
- options -k hpt302

But now in version 8.1 I think there has been some changes, cos for every other module that is mentioned in "modules.conf" there is an alias infront of "probeall". So perhaps I have to modify more than one file now, but I have no idea which ones.

Or am I way off here?