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 at bdc root]# fdisk /dev/sda Unable to open /dev/sda I found out that if at that point I issue the command: [root at 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