Re: block-major-xx

Steve Dodd (dirk@loth.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 20 May 1999 12:58:31 +0100


On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 11:37:49PM +0000, Philipp Thomas wrote:

> 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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