Sanjay Darisi said:
>
> I have an over a Terabyte of external storage box that I have to access
> from a fedora core 1 box. Its connected to the host computer through a
> PCI based scsi adapter. This adapter has a scsi  interface and the
> storage box is connected to it. This storage box has like 5 IDE drives.
> I don't know how to access these drives. FC1 loaded sym53c8xx module
> when i'm installing it on the host computer. I'm assuming this is for
> the scsi adapter that's in there. How do I access these drives from the
> host computer. How do I mount them? lspci -v shows the scsi adapter.
>
> The scsi adapter is  LSI Logic - LSI U160
>
> And I don't know the company info of the storage adapter.
>
> But the system architecture of the storage box from its manual says:
>
>
>                                    Host
>                                     |
>                                     |  Ultra 160 or Fiber 2G
>                                     |
>                             Raid Subsystem controller board
>                                     |
>                                     |  ATA/133
>                                     |
>                              ATA/133 drives (Max 8)
>
> We don't have any RAID level configured and we have 5 IDE drives in
> there. Any ideas about how to access this storage box from FC1 linux
> box???

Assuming the "Raid Subsystem controller board" presents a single SCSI
device to the host, you should be able to find it as /dev/sda.  The first
partition on the device would be /dev/sda1.

If there is no partition on the device, you will have to use fdisk or
parted and other tools to partition it, format it and edit /etc/fstab to
automatically mount it.  This looks to be a good tutorial on how to do all
of that:
http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialAdditionalHardDrive.html

YMMV and I have not followed the tutorial cited above, it just looked
reasonable at a quick glance through it.

Alan



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