Suse Linux Professional 7.2

Hi,

I have set up a suse linux 7.2 professional on a HP netserver LC3 PII/450. The OS is on the raid channel 0. I also have a scsi drive attached on another channel. The drive has been formatted so I am trying to figure out how to get the OS to recognize the new drive using stored commands, utilities, or packages. The data will be on this drive while the database software will be installed on the raid. I know I need to have the scsi drive mounted, I know a filesystem needs to be on there and I know I have to get communication between the two channels. I have been at newsgroups, sites that are not working as it involves scsi hardware, checked the how-to and I still come away with nothing. I think if I did a reinstallation of the OS that the drive will show but I am not going to always have the opportunity to do this in the future so I need a direction to procedures that will allow me to do this.

Thanks in advance,
Ed Johnson

Hi Eddie,

The extra SCSI drive is attached to another SCSI channel on the same raid controller?
Is the drive handled by the RAID controller in some RAIDish way or is it just made available to the OS without further intervention?
What is the RAID controller you use? (In doubt check with lspci.) Does it show as two SCSI controllers? Maybe an additional ncr/sym/lsi53c8xx?

Can you see the drive with cat /proc/scsi/scsi ?
If yes, it wil be available under /dev/sdX where X is something between b an z. Have a look at /var/log/boot.msg: Upon loading of the controller, you'll get some information displayed and below the detection of SCSI drives.

Confess: You've been in the Windoze world for too long?

But maybe you will want to have a look at hwinfo.

Regards,

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