Re: [tlug] Finding Device Assignment

[Botond Botyanszki <9915104t@example.com>]

On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 17:29:46 +0900 (JST)
Charles Muller <acmuller@example.com> wrote:

> I just installed an external SCSI hard drive, and would like to assign it
> some mounting specifications in FSTAB, but I don't know how the Linux system
> identified it when I installed it (such as /dev/sda5, etc.). This is on
> RH 8.0, and I can normally get this information with the RH Hardware Browser
> applet, but this applet is broken at the moment (I'm still waiting for my
> answer from RHN support as to how to fix it). Is there somewhere else that
> this information might be accessible without the RH Browser?
Take a look at `dmesg` and /proc/partitions.
If nothing related shows up, you probably have to load some modules (sg, etc).
The SCSI howto might be useful to read.