Messages in this thread | | | From | (Philipp Thomas) | Subject | Re: block-major-xx | Date | Tue, 18 May 1999 23:37:49 GMT |
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On Sun, 16 May 1999 14:24:52 PDT, you wrote:
>Hi, >Is block-major-8 an alias for a particular module name? >If so, how can I find out the actual name.
It's not an alias, it's a request for a driver that handles block devices with major number 8. Look into linux/Documentation/devices.txt and you will find 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
to /etc/conf.modules, or, if you don't need it
alias block-major-8 off
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
Philipp
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