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Author: Kevin Brown
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Subject: SCSI controller card
RAID Devices show up as /dev/md/c#d#p#, where # is replaced by a device number
from 0 up. So a RAID drive on the first controller with only one partition
would be /dev/md/c0d0p0.

I'm using a Mylex RAID DAC1100 controller card (have two DAC960's that can't be
used). The 960's are need a hardware upgrade to allow them to have the v3.0 or
better bios installed (currently running 2.73 which is a single chip bios, 3.0+
is a two chip bios).

> Does anyone know of a good SCSI card for linux?
>
> I recently got an external RAID server that connects to a SCSI card with a
> cable that I just happened to have laying around.
> When I boot the box with the stuff connected and turned on,
> it checks the ram and everything and then shows me a SCSI card bios thing,
> Then it recognizes all the scsi harddrives in the thing and goes to LILO.
> Having already set up the card (with kudzu), I boot and login, I look for
> stuff in /dev and find nothing, not even in /dev/scsi/*, and MAKEDEV didn't
> work either.
>
> I looked on the web and found that the card I was using,
> an NCR 53C825 based card, was incompatible with linux.
> I think that is the problem because I tried plugging in an internal SCSI drive
> I had laying around and got the exact same result.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Eric
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