Home
| Calendar
| Mail Lists
| List Archives
| Desktop SIG
| Hardware Hacking SIG
Wiki | Flickr | PicasaWeb | Video | Maps & Directions | Installfests | Keysignings Linux Cafe | Meeting Notes | Linux Links | Bling | About BLU |
I am trying to install Slackware 8.1 on an older Dell PowerEdge server (4100). There are two SCSI controllers in the server, an on-board Adaptec 7860 driving the local drives and a 7880 in a PCI slot driving the RAID. The RAID array is 4 9gb SCSI drives in a RAID 5 array, set up to look like one 27GB drive. I am starting from a boot disk with adaptec drivers and I see both cards recognized during boot. The SCSI CD-ROM tied to the on-board controller is also recognized though I haven't tried to mount it yet -- but it finds the drive brand, ID, etc. My problem is that the RAID drives seem to disappear. Or maybe they are there but I don't know where to look. Should I see them as sda? md0 (or is that only for software raid)? Something else? Is there a different set of names for the drives on a second scsi controller? sda is not even in /dev. Or do I have to do something special to get the kernel to see these drives? I'm sort of assuming not, as they should just look like one big SCSI drive to the kernel. Thanks for any help. Tom ---------- Tom Rawson
BLU is a member of BostonUserGroups | |
We also thank MIT for the use of their facilities. |