[wplug] setting up Iomega on RedHat 8.0

[John Strange]

Well,

Your way does work but I would say it's not the official way, it goes a
long way to learn habits of doing things the way they are supposed to be
done other than just making them work.

I don't think he was flaming btw, just commenting.  If you ever have to
take over systems that have been hacked to death of getting things to
work instead of taking the time to do things right the first time, you'd
probably see the other side of the story.  If you have not already, it
sucks to take over systems where admins stuff rc.local with bunch of
path dependent crap and bad shell scripts.

- John

On Tue, 2003-05-20 at 11:22, Mike Griffin wrote:
> Adding to /etc/modules.conf
> Appropriate? Yes.  Easier? Not if you don't know what you're doing.
> 
> Let me stress the easy part... I never said "best practice",   as long 
> as it works for him without a problem, what's the deal with the flame?
> 
> 
> Mike
> 
> On Tuesday, May 20, 2003, at 11:10  AM, Vanco, Donald wrote:
> 
> > Mike Griffin wrote:
> >> the easiest way is to add what you need to /etc/rc.local
> >>
> >> rc.local loads AFTER all the other init scripts.
> >
> > I don't agree with that at all.  I would think an entry in 
> > /etc/modules.conf
> > far more appropriate.  man modprobe.
> >
> > Don
> >
> >
> >> On Tuesday, May 20, 2003, at 10:40  AM, Jay wrote:
> >>
> >>> I was using the wrong module.  It is a zip plus drive so I used imm.o
> >>> module  and everything worked fine.  I have one more problem I can't
> >>> figure out how to get the module "imm.o" to load on bootup.  I have
> >>> done this before in RedHat only I can not remember how to do it. I've
> >>> read several module HowTo and they do not tell how to do it.  Thanks
> >>> for the help.
> >>>
> >>> Jay
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 11:45:12AM -0400, Procario, Michael wrote:
> >>>> You do not have the scsi modules loaded. The Zip drive even used
> >>>> over the parallel port uses scsi commands. Try
> >>>>
> >>>> modprobe ppa
> >>>>
> >>>> Modprobe will try to resolve dependencies in modules and load all
> >>>> of the ones you need.
> >>>>
> >>>> Mike
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>>> From: Jay [mailto:wplug at caldron.com]
> >>>>> Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 11:16 AM
> >>>>> To: wplug at wplug.org
> >>>>> Subject: [wplug] setting up Iomega on RedHat 8.0
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I am trying to set up an Iomega Zip drive on a system running
> >>>>> RedHat 8.0.  When I issue the command: #  /sbin/insmod ppa I
> >>>>> receive the following Using
> >>>>> /lib/modules/2.4.18-14/kernel/drivers/scsi/ppa.o
> >>>>> /lib/modules/2.4.18-14/kernel/drivers/scsi/ppa.o: unresolved
> >>>>> symbol scsi_register_R0ac6db10
> >>>>> /lib/modules/2.4.18-14/kernel/drivers/scsi/ppa.o: unresolved
> >>>>> symbol scsi_unregister_module_R81d85a75
> >>>>> /lib/modules/2.4.18-14/kernel/drivers/scsi/ppa.o: unresolved
> >>>>> symbol scsi_register_module_Rfa20b7b0
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I have read the Zip Drive HowTo and scanned Google without
> >>>>> finding anything help in English.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks in advance for suggestions
> >>>>> Jay
> >>>>>
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