Mounting external SCSI disks
 

I have two external SCSI disks attached to a server running Advanced Server 2.1, and need to know how to get the system to recognize these disks. On Solaris, I would do a drvconfig; disks, then format, then newfs the disks. What would be the equivilent series of Linux commands to do the same thing.

Thanks!

1) load your SCSI host adapter driver (unless already loaded or compiled into your kernel)
2) your devices should be visible now as /dev/sda (1st SCSI disk), /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc, etc.
3) fdisk /dev/sda (or sdb, sdc, etc) and create partitions (man fdisk)
4) mke2fs -j /dev/sda1 , mkreiserfs, whatever ... (man mkfs)
5) mount /dev/sda1 /media/disk1
6) enjoy :-)

Thanks, AltF4. The SCSI host adapter is loaded (verified by dmesg), however, fdisk still does not see them (fdisk /dev/sda results in 'Unable to open /dev/sda'). Same thing for sdb, sdc, ... etc. And yes, the disks are powered on and connected properly to the machine. Any ideas?

howzit

I had similar problem try to ID if it? really /dev/sda couls be something else try using this cmd cdrecord --scanbus this will show all scsi devices and what name was associated with it. Also Just try fdisk -l this will list all devices on the box.

chow