On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 05:17:12PM +0100, Klaasjan Brand wrote: > On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 17:01, Treyvan wrote: > > > Surely there must be a way to disable it from the software? > > > > I tried disabling it in the BIOS but the system loaded it anyway. > > > > Suggestions appreciated. > > Check the file /etc/modules.conf; there should be a line like: > > alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx > (last word is the driver name, so it's different for each controller type) > > Put a # symbol in front of it and the kernel will now no longer load the > driver. If you don't want to reboot you should use the "rmmod" command to > remove the already loaded scsi modules. > > greets, > Klaasjan I agree with the above advice but we have a number oof machines with scsi controllers and no scsi drive attached. All we see is a boot message about the existance of the controller and the system goes on. And in these machines we have the scsi line in the modules.conf file. Maybe something ese is different but I don't know what it would be. -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University 715 Stadium Dr. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@trinity.edu -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
