On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Greg Green wrote: : Hello all: : : I am having problems detecting my scsi drives. I have three drives all : jumpered correctly and I recompiled the kernel for raid5, and also for : my correct scsi controller. I installed the correct raid145 patch, and : raidtools, and the latest linuxthreads. The problem is that I cannot : mkfs or mdcreate on these drives. I cannot even fdisk them, I keep : getting "unable to open /dev/sda." The PC Bios detects the SCSI card on : boot up, but then Linux detects 0 scsi. I have a NCR53875J SCSI : controller. : Below is my dmesg, I would appreciate any suggestions. : Thanks, : Greg Green
You need to compile the correct driver into the kernel. It is ncr8xx, not ncr7,8xx ... this drove me crazy for a day or two. We're running an NCR53875 here, though I don't know if I like it yet. HTH : Below is my dmesg, I would appreciate any suggestions. : : Console: 16 point font, 400 scans : Console: colour VGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max 63) : pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory structure at 0x000fae70 : pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory entry at 0xfb310 : pcibios_init : PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb340 : Probing PCI hardware. : Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 59.80 BogoMIPS : Memory: 63160k/65536k available (772k kernel code, 384k reserved, 1220k : data) : Swansea University Computer Society NET3.035 for Linux 2.0 : NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.13 for Linux NET3.035. : Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.034 : IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP : VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_5.6.0 initialized : : Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting. : : Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok. : Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled. : moving IDT ... ... done : Linux version 2.0.32 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.1) #1 Mon Feb 9 : 07:11:26 MST 1998 : Starting kswapd v 1.4.2.2 : Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled : tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A : tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A : PS/2 auxiliary pointing device detected -- driver installed. : Real Time Clock Driver v1.07 : ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57 : ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007 : ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f : hda: ST32140A, 2015MB w/128kB Cache, CHS=1023/64/63 : hdc: 655A, ATAPI CDROM drive : ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 : ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 : Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M : FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 : md driver 0.36.3 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 : linear personality registered : raid0 personality registered : raid1 personality registered : raid5 personality registered : scsi : 0 hosts. : scsi : detected total. : PPP: version 2.2.0 (dynamic channel allocation) : TCP compression code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of : California : PPP Dynamic channel allocation code copyright 1995 Caldera, Inc. : PPP line discipline registered. : eth0: 3Com 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx at 0x6100, 00:60:08:04:3c:f8, IRQ : 11 : 8K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/MII interface. : eth0: MII transceiver found at address 24. : Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives. : eth0: Overriding PCI latency timer (CFLT) setting of 32, new value is : 248. : 3c59x.c:v0.46C 10/14/97 Donald Becker : http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html : Partition check: : hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 > : VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. : Adding Swap: 130748k swap-space (priority -1) : Module inserted $Id: cdrom.c,v 0.8 1996/08/10 10:52:11 david Exp $ : eexpress.c: Module autoprobe not recommended, give io=xx. : loading device 'eth1'... : eexpress.c: Failed to register card at 0x0. : : : : : : -- : TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] . : Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . : : -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 phone: (605) 334-4454 fax: (605) 335-1173 mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net PGP Key ID: 0xA33B86E9 - Public key available at keyservers PGP Key fingerprint: CE03 10AF 3281 1858 9D32 C2AB 936D C472 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
