[KLUG Members] SCSI problems

[Hagen Fenstermaker]

 >The card and drive seem to be there based upon the info in /proc
>
> Is the drive partitioned and formatted?  You have to mount the drive
> before you can access it.
>
> Try:
>
> fdisk /dev/sda       (setup partitions)

I thought so too.  I've done just about everything I can think of along
those lines.

$ fdisk /dev/sda
Unable to open /dev/sda

Maybe the drive is bad?

>I got the exact same kind of problems when trying to get the SCSI on a VA
>linux box to run with an older kernel and an 7xxx chipset.  What version
>are you running?

It's an almost new install of RedHat 9.  Kernel 2.4.20-8.  I'm not sure what
the card's BIOS version is.

>I have (erm, had... I gave it away) a 1542... those are SLOW cards. I'd
>recommend against connecting a drive to it.

It's on a slow computer.  My lack of funds and desire to squeeze as much
life from hardware as possible makes me do these things. That doesn't sound
promising though.

Thanks

Hagen