I have an IDE based PC running Linux/CentOS4 to which I wish to attach a scsi dlt. The host controller is an Adaptec AHA3940 something that lspci reports as: SCSI storage controller: Initio Corporation 360P (rev 02).
I would like to have the system load the driver for this adapter at boot but I have two problems: 1. I am not sure which driver to use; and 2. I do not know how to force Linux to load a driver module.
My research to date indicates that the driver module for this device likely is one of:
/lib/modules/2.6.9-11.EL/kernel/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx.ko /lib/modules/2.6.9-11.EL/kernel/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx.ko /lib/modules/2.6.9-11.EL/kernel/drivers/scsi/initio.ko
My reading of man modprobe.conf and modprobe lead me to conclude that the following needs to be added to /etc/modprobe.conf
install <name of one of the above drives> alias scsi_host_adapter <name used for install>
Can somebody confirm whether I am on the right track or not and provide some advice has to how to proceed? Which is the preferred driver for this card? Do I have to make additional entries for the tape drive itself an HP surestore dlt vs80? How do I create the necessary /dev/st# and /dev/mt# entries? Is there a Linux utility program like kudzu that can probe the hardware and automate any of this?
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Regards, Jim
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