Scsi setup

SchoolITguy · 10-28-2002, 01:14 PM

I have installed a controller card (adeptec something) on my red hat 8.0 machine. When it booted up it saw the card and installed the driver but I don't think it sees the two drives that I have hooked up to it. Or maybe I am looking in the wrong place. I checked under disk management and I didn't see it. Is there a step that I don't know how to do? Do I have to set scsi id's or what. I have the cable terminated and had it working fine on windows 2000 server.
Thanks

Thymox · 10-28-2002, 01:26 PM

Go and check to see if you have any scsi disk devices... they'll be /dev/sd? where the ? is a letter from a onwards. If you have these, then Linux has found the devices, but you will need to check what filesystems are present on them before you can mount and access the files.

SchoolITguy · 10-28-2002, 03:22 PM

It did find them, it was running ntfs because I was using them on windows before. I tried using fdisk to delet the partions and create a new one but it still doesn't show up to mount it. I am kind of confused.

Thymox · 10-28-2002, 03:28 PM

Could you post the output of fdisk -l? You may need to specify which disk, so it may need to be fdisk -l /dev/sda, for example.

SchoolITguy · 10-29-2002, 08:55 AM

It shows:
sda 88000 blocks linux

I think is just needs to be formatted?

neo77777 · 10-29-2002, 10:21 AM

it is already formated, it needs filesystem on it
refer to http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue68/dellomodarme.html for different filesystems available and how to install, create and configure them

SchoolITguy · 10-29-2002, 11:33 AM

Thank you that document is very helpful. That has shed the light on quite a few things for me. I havn't tried it yet but I think I will be able to figure them out. I would like to set them up in raid what is the easiest way to do that?