Subject: Re: SCSI RAID question
From: Hollis R Blanchard (hollis+@andrew.cmu.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 25 2000 - 15:25:36 MDT
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 christopher.murtagh@wcg.mcgill.ca wrote:
>
> Now that I have my SCSI card working, I tried to mount this really cool
> RAID device I bought. From the advice from someone on this list I bought
> a host-indendant RAID box from ProDirect. Now, this thing is supposed to
> be host independant (just shows up as SCSI device via Ultra2 interface
> -ie no special PCI card), and it does get detected by YDL. It doesn't come
> up as a block device however, instead it shows up under /dev/sg1 (general
> SCSI device). I can mount the thing in MacOS, but I don't have a clue on
> how to do it in Linux. Does anyone out there have any experience with this
> sort of thing? Any info/help would be *much* appreciated. TIA.
I have no experience, but can you fdisk, mke2fs, mount, etc? Just pass
/dev/sg1 instead of /dev/hda, for example 'fdisk /dev/sg1'.
-Hollis
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