Hi Folks, I got no replies to my previous question, so I tried a few things on my own, and fortunately did not burn anything up. I looked at /proc/modules to see what there was when the system first boots up, and again after I used YAST to load what it thinks are the necessary modules to support the Adaptec 29160 HBA. Funny thing is YAST knows that the correct module is aic7xxx, but for some reason it is not automatically loaded on boot up. Other modules that YAST loads ar st, sg, and I think sr_mod. I first modified /etc/modules.conf to change the line alias scsi_hostadapter off to alias scsi_hostadapter on This got the system to load the st, sg, and sr_mod automatically on startup, but still no aic7xxx. I figured out the modprobe command that I need to run, and created a file in /etc/init.d to run it to install the aic7xxx module. I created a link in /etc/init.d/bootd to start it as early in the boot as possible. Now everything seems to be OK on startup; the modules are loaded so the by the time init gets to fscking the files in /etc/fstab, they are all accessible. I still don't understand why I had to do this, and any information on this would be greatly appreciated. eyc