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

R&J Stuart rjstuart at bigpond.net.au
Mon Mar 22 05:30:23 EST 2004


Jay wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 09:13, Tony Melia wrote:
>> 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.

Yes, you should be able to.  You really need to supply more information for 
the list to be able to help... what sort of machine is it, what array 
controller is it? and probably most helpful would the output of /sbin/lspci.

You could try doing an /sbin/lsmod and looking for either "cciss" or 
"cpqarray" modules.  If both aren't loaded, try loading each of them and see 
if that gives some useful result.  The block devices live in /dev/cciss or 
something similar - the kernel output from the module load should give you 
some clues.

Regards,

Robert





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