[wplug] SCSI drives..

[Vanco, Don]

wplug-bounces+don.vanco=agilysys.com at wplug.org wrote:
> Well, to followup with my last two posts . . .
> 
> I took a leap of faith and just stuck the old IDE drive in
> it's new home.
>  Kudzu did its job of detecting everything, including the
> SCSI controller.
> 
> However I still cannot mount nor fdisk the scsi hdd.
> 
> Intrestingly enough if I run kudzu again from commandline it
> spouts off the diagnosics to the console indicating the HDD
> that is attached as SDA, and the one partition I have on it as SDA1.
> 
> However,
> 
> [root at nfsbox dev]# fdisk /dev/sda
> Unable to open /dev/sda
	
Is there an alternate module you can try for SCSI support (true of
Adaptec and Symbios (and emulated) cards)?

Do you see the device in /proc?
e.g.:
[root at DL320 root]# less /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor: IBM      Model: DDRS-34560W      Rev: S98G
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00
  Vendor: COMPAQ   Model: BD018734A4       Rev: 3B11
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 02

and/or

[root at DL320 root]# less /proc/scsi/sym53c8xx/0
General information:
  Chip sym53c895a, device id 0x12, revision id 0x1
  On PCI bus 1, device 2, function 0, IRQ 3
  Synchronous period factor 10, max commands per lun 32


Consider re-creating the node
[root at DL320 root]# ls -la /dev/sda
brw-rw----    1 root     disk       8,   0 Sep 15  2003 /dev/sda

ergo:
rm /dev/sda
mknod /dev/sda b 8 0

grasping....
Don