thanx a lot for your reply man I did all of that and I'm still getting the same message when trying to fdisk those drives. is there something else i need to do? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Berkley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2000 3:02 AM Subject: Re: [expert] hard drive upgrade (ide to scsi) > you need an initrd file for your installation. boot with a floppy and > mount the root partition somewhere. > > mkinitrd /boot/initrd_kernel_id.img kernel_id > > example: > > mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.2.17 2.2.17 > > look in your /lib/modules and /boot directories for a list of the > kernels that you have available > > put the following line in /etc/lilo.conf below the image definition > > initrd=/boot/initrd_kernel_id.img > > run lilo > > reboot > > and your system should be able to find the scsi drives. > > There is no scsi support when you boot without an initrd image (initial > ramdisk) > > Tom Berkley > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I ipgraded my ide system with ut2 scsi controller ( tekram-symbios) > > and 2 > > ibm u2w scsi hds. It detected the controller properly, but I still > > can not > > connect to any of scsi hds. scsi ids are 0 and 1. The devices I > > tried to > > access were /dev/sda and /dev/sdb > > ( fdisk /dev/sda). The error message I get is "Unable to open > > /dev/sda" . > > When I run diskdrake it also shows only the ide drive I have in the > > system. > > What do I need to do ? > > thanx > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: > Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. >
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