Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 May 1999 12:58:31 +0100 | From | Steve Dodd <> | Subject | Re: block-major-xx |
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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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