Subj : Automatic Loading of PPA module
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Borax Man
Date : Tue Jul 20 2004 12:29 am

I am running a red hat 7.3 system.  Attached to this is am Iomega Zip 
drive, attached via parallel port.  I have the following line in my 
/etc/modules.conf
alias block-major-8 ppa
and the ppa module would load automatically whenever I tried to access 
the Zip drive.  All good.  The Zip drive was device /dev/sda

now I have set up a USB key, its not /dev/sda and the zip drive is 
/dev/sdb.  USB key mounts OK, but now the PPA module doesn't 
automatically load anymore and not must be invoked manually.

How can I get it to load automatically again?  What might the issue be? 
  I could change a script to load the ppa module at boot, but thats not 
really an option at the moment, I need the freedom to remove it and have 
it loaded automatically when required.

Any ideas?


Thanks,
Dennis.

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