Hi people,
I installed a via SATA controller in a CentOS release 3.8 (Final) - I needed additional disk space. After the first boot, the kudzu service, added the following line to /etc/modules.conf:
alias scsi_hostadapter sata_via
and I rebooted. After reboot in dmesg one can see:
scsi0 : sata_via scsi1 : sata_via Vendor: ATA Model: SAMSUNG HD080HJ Rev: WT10 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 SCSI device sda: 156301488 512-byte hdwr sectors (80026 MB) sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 > sda3 scsi : 0 hosts left
But the /dev/sda device is not present in the system. If I issue the command:
[root@bdc root]# fdisk /dev/sda
Unable to open /dev/sda
I found out that if at that point I issue the command:
[root@bdc root]# modprobe scsi_hostadapter
the /dev/sda is inserted in the system and I can access it using fdisk. It appears to me that scsi_hostadapter is initially loaded during boot, later unloaded - therefore the drive is missing.
Currently I patch the situation with a file /etc/rc.modules with the following contents:
#! /bin/sh
modprobe scsi_hostadapter
However I assume that this is not the correct way to fix this. Maybe I need additional lines in modules.conf?
Best regards, alex