Re: modprobe: can't locate module block-major-3

linux kernel account (linker@nightshade.z.ml.org)
Sun, 5 Oct 1997 18:26:19 -0400 (EDT)

Prob somthing like a CDprobe script is probing devices, modprove sees the
accesss to major-3 and tries to load the driver.. edit modules.conf and
make block-major-3 off... Better: find the script and stop it.

On Sun, 5 Oct 1997, Edward Welbon wrote:

> On occasion, these messages show up:
>
> Oct 5 14:58:35 tarantula modprobe: can't locate module block-major-3
>
> This is apparently a reference to /dev/hda and /dev/hdb. I have no
> IDE devices installed and have not built the IDE portions of the
> kernel (2.1.57). Why might this be happening???
>
> Ed Welbon - welbon@bga.com
> In nature there is neither right or wrong, only consequences.
>