Re: tlug: Scsi devices

[Jim Tittsler <jwt-tlug@example.com>]

On Thu, Feb 25, 1999 at 05:57:03PM +0000, Darren Cook wrote:
> I've an MO and an external hard disk connected to the scsi card (Adaptec
> 1542). They've been detected okay (see below). Will they be /dev/sda1 and
> /dev/sda2 ?

No, /dev/sda and /dev/sdb.  (Partitions within each device will be the
numbered versions, /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2, etc.)

> #more /proc/scsi/scsi
> Attached devices: 
> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 00
>   Vendor: KONICA   Model: OMD-7061         Rev: 3.02
>   Type:   Optical Device                   ANSI SCSI revision: 02
[...]
> 
> #mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/mo
> mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda1 as a block device
>        (maybe `insmod driver'?)

If you are using 640 MB media in your MO drive and you don't have
a recent kernel, you will need to patch the kernel to add support
for 2048 byte sectors.

And MO disks don't have to be partitioned, so it may be in "whole disk"
mode where it is like a giant floppy with no partition table... in which
case you would have wanted 'mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/mo'  ('fdisk /dev/sda'
would give you a hint here.)

-- 
Jim Tittsler, Tokyo   ICQ: 5981586

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