Silly modules question

["Paul D. Smith" <pausmith@nortelnetworks.com>]

So, I've set up a number of modules, including ALSA (built from source,
not the deb package), etc. so I understand the structure of
/etc/modutils and update-modules, etc.

I have an old Adaptec 1522 SCSI card in my system that's just used to
drive my old SyQuest EZDrive.  I can't figure out how to configure it to
load the aha152x module for me automatically.

I have this in my /etc/fstab:

  /dev/sda1 /sydos vfat noauto,user 0 0

When I try "mount /sydos", I get:

  mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda1 as a block device
         (maybe `insmod driver'?)

If I insmod the module by hand, it works.

I'm missing the magic needed to connect the sda1 device with the aha152x
driver.  Is there some char alias I have to set or something?  For my
ethernet card I used:

  alias eth0 modulename

Do I just need an "alias sda aha152x" or something?  Do you just alias
a device like that?  Is there some documentation somewhere discussing
this?  Similarly, I decided to try using the 2.2.17 builtin support for
the SB Live! emu10k1 rather than Alsa as I was using before; I had all
the alsa stuff set up in modutils perfectly.  Does anyone have an
example of this for the 2.2.17 kernel emu10k1 module?

Also in modutils/scsi I have this:

  options aha152x aha152x=0x340,9

These parameters are required but if I just use "insmod aha152x" they
don't get used; I have to add them explicitly.  I'm assuming that if the
kernel loads that module for me automatically it'll see those options in
modules.conf?

Thx.

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