I am relatively new to linux and have been stumbling my way through RedHat's Fedore Core 3. The BIG problem I have been having is getting my SCSI card to be recognised but I've cracked it and I can now see my Advansys Scsi card and my HDD attached to it.

The catch is however, I cannot seem to get it to auto load at bootup, what I have to do is this

1) Either login as root or login and su to root in terminal
2) run "modprobe advansys"
3) mount the partition from /dev/sda1 to /mnt/scsi

once this is done I can sccess the drive no problem.

My question is this,

Is there either a way to get linux to do this for me or a way to create a script/batch file/etc so that I can run all the commands at once.

any suggestions would be great

Thx

add the following to a startup script such as rc.local
modprobe advansys

and then to have it automounted you can add something like the
following to /etc/fstab :
now keep in mind i don't know what kind of filesystem you have on that device, but i just went under the assumption it is fat32 .. so you can change the part that says vfat to reflect the partition type.

Thanks for that, I seem to be making some real progress.

I have added the lines you suggested, and now when I startup and log into any account and check the hardware configuration I see the scsi card loaded, the hard drive is recognised and I even get an icon for the hard drive in the file system.

The only problem I have is that the drive is not mounting, I get an error, on bootup, saying that the device /dev/sda1 does not exist. I have tried changing this to /dev/sda (the drive not the partition) and I just get the same error

Is there any way I can get around this.

Thx

so are you saying that line in the fstab gives you that error upon bootup
but when you manually type in :
after bootup, it works?

That's correct,

I've even tried different variations of the code that you gave me to try and get it to work but to no advail.

Is it possible that the /etc/fstab script is executing before the modprobe command? If so is there another startup script I can try?

Thanks for your help

If the software for SCSI card is compiled as module, it has to first be loaded at the initrd stage of booting when you want it to mount at boot up. Of course you will need other modules too if they are not builtin. Usually, mkinitrd is smart checking for module dependencies. Look up mkinitrd in the man or info pages. I had to do the same with my IDE controller.

BTW, do not forget to include any filesystem in the mkinitrd with options, if / was formatted using a different filesystem other than ext2. If you do not, you have to pay time later on.

hi,

Afterfouling my Linux build up more than once then giving up I finallt invested in an adaptec scsi card and after a little playing around in the /etc/fstab file, finally got the scsi hdd starting at bootup.and any user can now access it.

But now I have problem number two. I cannot write to it. (or at least not unless I'm constantly logged in as root.)http://images.linuxquestions.org/que...cons/icon8.gif
Despite trawling the web for commands and altering the fstab line again it still will not allow a non root user to write to it

Is there a setting / Command etc that you can suggest to fix this

Thanks for all your help so far.

Post your /etc/fstab line for this filesystem. How is the drive formated i.e. filesystem(s). If using a linux filesystem you need to change permissions to the mount directory using the chmod command.

Thanks for your help everyone. I think I have sorted it now.

Apparently, the folder that I was mounting to was restricted to root only (never thought of that), a friend advised I type this line into the terminal:

and hey presto it's working fine.

Its directory not folder.

I stand corrected, thank you