I just added an Adaptec SCSI card, a HP DAT, and a 20Gb drive
to a Dell running RH 6.2. No problems once I found out that
the drives had been jumpered by default the wrong way round :-)
On reboot the SCSI card identifies the hardware correctly
but fails to pass this information to the OS, so proc/scsi/scsi
is null and any attempt to mount the drive fails as unknown device.
Yet if I exercise the tape drive (eg tar tvf /dev/st0), I can
subsequently mount and access the disk without problems.
Obviously some piece of driver is being loaded when the tape is
first accessed after a reboot but trying to access the drive
doesn't do this.
On first reboot after installation, kudzu correctly found the
Adaptec driver and installed it (or said so...:-)
Any ideas as to what I can tweak to force SCSI recognition?
///Peter
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