> that block major 8 are SCSI disks. Now you'd have to find out what module
> handles them, in this case it's sd.o . So in order to have them handled, you'd
> need to add
>
> alias block-major-8 sd
Which should be the default for modprobe (check modprobe -c); and I think it's
sd_mod.o, not sd.o
> If you get this because you're trying to access a parallel zip drive, add
> alias block-major-8 ppa
> and
> pre-install ppa insmod -k sd
Blech. What's wrong with
alias scsi_hostadapter ppa
and forget the whole pre-install mess?
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