Right- I've got 2 SCSI drives, both fast seagates- and I can't manage to find them on Linux 8.0 - do I need to mount them specifically? And if so, eheheh.. how?

And I've always been curious; what does SCSI stand for...?

Post your /etc/fstab and we'll both know


small computer system interface


John

severly complicated set of instructions

If RH didn't automagically find them and change fstab for you, you'll want to poke through dmesg for the scsi card device scan. They'll be somewhat indented from the rest of dmesg and should probably be /dev/sda and /dev/sdb.

Cheers,

Finegan

"Seldom Complies with a Standard Interface"?




John

My favorite is still PCMCIA:

People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms

Cheers,

Finegan

Yah kay, here's my fstab

LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 11
none /dev/pts devpts gid5,mode=620 0 0
None /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0

One's obviously my CDrom drive, and the other's my Hard drive. Soooo...I guess it doesn't recognize my SCSI seagates?

I prodded about in /dev and there wasn't anything in /dev/sda or /dev/sdb...

However when I poked around in dmesg I think I dug out something that's got a bearing on where my SCSI drives are: (Bare with me- I'm new to Linux. :P)

ide0: BM-DMA ar 0xff00-0xff07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xff08-0xff0f, BIOS settings:hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA

hda: GENERIC, ATA DISK drive
hdc: CD-RW IDE1610, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15

Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2

((Hehe..."Seldom complies with standard interface"))

That's all IDE devices... hmmm, I wonder if RH even found the SCSI card, what kind is it, and what's the listing from /sbin/lsmod?

Also, if you don't know the exact model of card and its a pci card, then /sbin/lspci will tell us.

Cheers,

Finegan

Yeah, it's time to see if Redhat (ummm, are we talking about RH aren't we?) actually found the SCSI card. Redhat seems to have a mental block when it comes to some SCSI cards (Adaptecs, no less).

This will make it easier to post what finegan asked for:

/sbin/lspci > /home/kit/pcidevices
(assuming that your home dir is "kit")
Then just post "pcidevices" here.

While you are at it, fire up "Midnight Commander" ("mc") and take a peek at /proc/scsi/scsi and post its contents as well.

"cat /proc/scsi/scsi > /home/kit/scsidevices" should do the trick.


John

Yup, thiss'n' be Redhat 8.0. (Thank you soooo much fer puttin' up with my ignorant ways!)

Roight. 'Ere's me /sbin/lsmod
Module Size Used by Tainted: GF
sr_mod 18168 0 (autoclean)
soundcore 6500 0 (autoclean)
autofs 13348 0 (autoclean) (unused)
sis900 16812 1
ipt_REJECT 3736 6 (autoclean)
iptable_filter 2412 1 (autoclean)
ip_tables 14840 2 [ipt_REJECT iptable_filter]
ide-scsi 10512 0
ide-cd 33608 0
cdrom 33696 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
printer 8992 0
mousedev 5524 1
keybdev 2976 0 (unused)
hid 22244 0 (unused)
input 5920 0 [mousedev keybdev hid]
usb-ohci 21288 0 (unused)
usbcore 77056 1 [printer hid usb-ohci]
ext3 70336 1
jbd 52212 1 [ext3]
initio 24420 0 (unused)
sd_mod 13552 0 (unused)
scsi_mod 107176 4 [sr_mod ide-scsi initio sd_mod]

An' 'ere's me /sbin/lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 735 Host (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5591/5592 AGP
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 85C503/5513
00:02.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 (rev 07)
00:02.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 (rev 07)
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev d0)
00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 10/100 Ethernet (rev 90)
00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1969 Solo-1 Audiodrive (rev 02)
00:11.0 SCSI storage controller: Initio Corporation INI-940 (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation RIVA TNT2 Model 64 (rev 15)

An' uh, here's what showed up in /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices:
Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: CDWRITER Model: IDE1610 Rev: A.20
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02

Hey- thanks John for the shortcut and the teaching my how to copy files to another place under a new name- that's ingenious! Does it only work with Binary files or all o' em? Once again- thanks much for the help! (At this rate I'll be better 'n' me ol' pater!)

Aha, this punk:

SCSI storage controller: Initio Corporation INI-940 (rev 01)


doesn't have its module loaded! I've got an initio card, the module is probably either:

initio.o or a100u2w.o

so try:

modprobe initio

or the other one...

Cheers,

Finegan

No problem, you would believe the information that sometimes get left out

Details, details...


Anytime

It sure makes it easier. As for binaries, not really. I can't imagine why you would need to though...

Your 'pater had better keep on his toes

And it's a darn good thing that finegan is here to bail me out (thanks for the assist!)


John

Ummm kay- when I type modprobe inito it justs brings me to a new command line- blank- and no response or anything- is this good or bad? And I figured out the reason for one of the SCSI's being missing, (Even in all our searchings) My Random Relative #1 informed me that she had unplugged it earlier to conserve energy without my knowing. -.- Anywhoo- is that blank response good or bad?

Blanks are good (usually). IF you don't get returned, or if you get returned, but with errors, that's bad.

Now try checking the /proc/scsi/scsi again, and also you can try various mountings at random again such as /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 sdb sda whatever. However yeah, check the proc, and /var/log/messages see if anything turned up after the modprobe.

Cool

Gooood! I know for a fact that module will kick errors if it doesn't find the device to bind to, now check dmesg and find what the scsi devices are called, most likely /dev/sda and /dev/sdb, then partition them with cfdisk:

cfdisk /dev/sda

cut them into parts if you want, then make a linux filesystem on them, something fun like ext3, jfs or reiser... then add them to /etc/fstab.

Cheers,

Finegan

AAARRRGGG!! Is there a quick way to set all the properties for all the files so that I can execute, read, and write as an admin?

I'm on root and I have to personally change all the properties in each individual file I wanna use otherwise. (Which is why the process of this SCSI business is taking up all my free time- fixing properties!)

Anyone wanna spare my sanity?