Hello,

I have system with a RAID on it the RAID is on SCSI disk. Currently all the hard drives are off except the regular IDE drive which has linux on it. Linux doesn't know at the moment that the SCSI's even exist, because the're not on. I would like to change that. I currently have Suse 10.1 installed. What is the best way to go about this and is it possible. I think the RAID was RAID 5 and that it was windows before.

Thanks

Linux supports many SCSI RAID Controllers.. you just have to have the proper driver module loaded..

What type of SCSI Controller is it ? (manufacturer / Model number)

You may need to make a custom Install iso if you plan to install directly to the SCSI RAID Controller.. I know you are running Suse and I'm sure there is a similar resource out there for you, but just as an example here is a custom .iso to install Debian on a variety of Hardware that has SCSI RAID controllers from various manufacturers..
http://wiki.osuosl.org/display/LNX/D...n+Dell+Servers

You could also compile a new kernel for your system then move it from the IDE drive to the SCSI Array. Talk about a great learning opportunity

So I opened up the box and actually there are IDE's. My mistake came in that the primary drive is a SCSI drive not in a RAID. So I've opened up partitioner in Yast (I like GUI's for the easy part) and it's telling me that it's a BIOS raid system by the controler card (Promise FastTrack). Then it goes on to tell me that kernel 2.4 supports most cards but kernel 2.6 doesn't?

So I guess my question is how do i get access to the hard drives now. I can see them but I cannot mount them, it tells me 'permission denied'.

Cheers for the help.