William L. Maltby wrote: > On Wed, 2007-12-26 at 09:19 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > >> William L. Maltby wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 2007-12-26 at 08:09 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >>> >>> >>>> William L. Maltby wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> On Tue, 2007-12-25 at 21:59 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >>>>> <snip> >>>>> > > >>>>> Do an lsmod and see if you see sg, maybe sd_mod, scsi_mod, ide_cd. >>>>> Look at /etc/modules.conf (I think that's it - thngs changed in the last >>>>> decade or so). >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> scsi_mod 133069 4 sr_mod,sg,libata,usb_storage >>>> ide_cd 40033 0 >>>> cdrom 36705 2 sr_mod,ide_cd >>>> >>>> (also a plain-old cdrom installed via IDE (internal) on this server). >>>> > > I didn't notice this before. the entries on the right specify who uses > that module. Are they compiled in on your system? Custom kernel? I'd > have thought those would show up in lsmod too. > Everything on this system came from the Centos 5/5.1 repos (5.1 are local mirrors). > My 5.1 has scsi_mod, sg, sd_mnod, libata and some chipset-specific > modules. > > It also has, in modprobe.conf alias scsi_hostadapter sata_via. The last > is chipset-specific. I don't know if this line is needed at all on your > system. > Well how do I find out? > >>>> <snip> >>>> > > HTH >