[H-GEN] mounting sco hd's under linux

[Jay]

On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 09:13, Tony Melia wrote:
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>  Normally Compaq and most other SCSI raid controllers have a different
> drive geometry than a standard SCSI controller, so the answer is almost
> definitely yes - you MUST access them through the original array
> controller.  You should be able to access the partitions under linux if you
> have compiled the sco filesystem support, so you don't need to boot SCO
> e.t.c, but in the long run it may be easier to do that.

Can't the physical compaq array controller be simulated by way of a software 
driver? That could sort me out.

After the files in question have been retrieved and put on cd both scsi hd's 
are being re-assigned to run linux fs only connected to a normal scsi card. 
No future need for sco stuff.

Cheers

Johannes
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