Problem with SCSI scanner

[Bob Taylor]

On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 19:00 -0600, Nick Geovanis  wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 10:54:17 -0800
> > From: Bob Taylor <brtaylor at sanfelipe.com.mx>
> > Subject: Re: Problem with SCSI scanner
> > To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> > Message-ID: <1132080858.8118.6.camel at ann.qtpi.local>
> > > 
> > > Try adding "modprobe sg" to /etc/rc.d/rc.local
> > 
> > I consider this a hack, Paul. However, I have done so. I *know* it was
> > in /etc/modprobe.conf because the scanner *was* working. The only thing
> > that happened since I last used it was the power failure leading to a
> > reboot.
> 
> Just a thought: Maybe you lost a file in the power failure?
> If /etc is on the root volume, see if there are any files in /lost+found
> and of there are, maybe grep through the directory for text you might
> expect in modprobe.conf. Just a suggestion.

File was there. What was missing was the line: alias scsi_generic sg
in /etc/modprobe.conf.
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brtaylor at sanfelipe.com.mx