Load aic7xxx at Boot
 

OK, I've a number of problems with my scsi tape drive, but let's address them one at a time.

The first one is how to get the aic7xxx driver loaded when I boot. I'm running Slack 10.1 with the 2.6.10 stuff from /testing/. Poking around on the web, I thought all I needed was the following in /etc/modprobe.conf:

alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx

But, alas, this does not load the module. So, how do I get the module loaded whenever I boot. :confused:

Cheers,
Eddie

If that does the thick then put it in your /etc/rc.d/rc.modules to load at startup

Regards

Just noticed that I get the following at boot time:

Jul 5 17:55:04 The-Tardis kernel: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
Jul 5 17:55:04 The-Tardis last message repeated 2 times

Any ideas why this is failing at boot time, and how to fix it.

Cheers,
Eddie

Remove the line from your /etc/modprobe.conf to get rid of the error message. Try to manually insert the module into the kernel and if it works then put it in your /etc/rc.d/rc.modules