Hey

I recently set up a mandrake 9 web server, and everything is going great. Our office has an abundance of 1 GB jaz drives lying around, so I thought I'd use them as web backup disks.

The problem is that I cannot get the jaz to work in linux. I don't know how supported they are. I have a scsi card in the box, that I've recently added (after the OS install). The jaz is external. I plugged the jaz into the back of the scsi card. The BIOS detects it, and harddrake detects the card.

Harddrake reports the following about the SCSI card:
Vendor: Advanced System Products
Bus: PCI
Bus identification: 10cd:1300
Location on the bus: 0:11:
Description: ABP940-U/ ABP960-U
Module: advansys
Media class: STORAGE_SCSI

How do I mount the disk? Do I have to have special drivers, or should it mount like any other hdd? I've never dealt with scsi and linux (there's a first for everything). I tried mounting it like /dev/sda1, but that didn't work.

Any ideas or suggestions? Any thoughts would be most helpful.

Thanks in advance.

try any other alternatives /dev/sda4 is usually your best bet

I actually tried /dev/sda4 earlier, and it wasn't a valid device.

I'm thinking I have a configuration problem on the card (or a scsi driver problem). I did a dmesg, and it found the card, but didn't find the jaz attached to the card.

Now I do have one question: Do I have to install drivers for the scsi card? It wasn't in the machine when I installed the OS. Do I need to do anything to get the card working? I did insmod anvansys and I did dmesg again, it said the advansys 1.0 module was running. Do I need to do anything else? Configuration, etc?

Thanks

Check the termination on the SCSI chain. I've only delt with SCSI scanner, USB Zip100 in the respect of SCSI devices, that's about it, unfortunately I can't tell you more besides termination bit.

I thought of that, but the scsi card detects the jaz during post. If the termination was incorrectly set, it wouldn't detect would it?

I have verified that the termination is enabled on the external jaz (it is the only thing plugged into the scsi card). The ID is set to 1 on the jaz. When the scsi card does POST, it displays the devices plugged into it, and the jaz appears on 7. I don't know if that is the id. I haven't worked with scsi much.

There is one hard drive (hda1 -- ext2, hda2 -- swap) and a cdrom (hdc). I can't get anything else to mount.

I wanted a removable medium that would support more than a few meg, and that I could format as ext2. That way, my symbolic links, permissions, etc. would be preserved. Plus, it would be obviously faster than copying data across a network machine running windows hosting the jaz.

Thanks for your help.

Do you have cdrecord installed? Just an idea, if you have it installed (it comes bundled with every distribution I know about) as root run
cdrecord -scanbus
and see if the Zip shows up in the output.

No, I don't have cdrecord installed. This box is a web/database/file server and I have no reason for a burner.

I have no zip devices installed (jaz), so I don't think that would apply. Unfortunately, I'm at home and the server is at work (45 min away). I'll look at it tomorrow, and see what else I can do. I've never fussed with scsi before.

Thanks for your help. I appreciate it.