Problems trying to use hpt371 driver

[newt]

I've an old MSI matx motherboard, with a slot A athlon (it's that old). I've added a HighPoint single IDE connecter PCI IDE card to it (to support my large disks). I'm running RedHat 7.3 .

I downloaded the driver from the HighPoint site and went through the test stage

insmod hpt371.o and that worked fine.

So I then followed the advice for installing the module, namely:

install -d /lib/modules/2.14.18-3/kernel/drivers/scsi
install -c hpt371.o /lib/modules/2.14.18-3/kernel/drivers/scsi

As I have no other SCSI adapters, I amended /etc/modules.conf and added

probeall block-major-8 hpt371
options -k hpt371

as per the instructions and rebooted. However, that didn't load the module, and I still had to used insmod to load it. What stage have I missed out?

Thanks in advance.

[newt]

Solved it.

Realising that I needed to have drives and partitions on this IDE connector availabe during boot, I came to the conclusion that I needed to add this to the booting image.

I had problems doing that, but only because I forgot to copy sd_mod.o and scsi_mod.o to the RAM disk image (I'd already copied hpt371.o). Added insmod /lib/<module>.o to linuxrc and rebooted. All now well.