Re: [Trinux-talk] Re: RE:Kernel for Adaptec

[Richard T. <ri...@th...>]

Thanks for the answer. You got me further along than I was. The RAID is a
Dell PERC2 controller. Dell has a RPM for it, but it only supports the 2.2
kernel. I did load the md.o, xor.o, and raid5.o modules. I don't understand
the results though. The SCSI adapters detect great. It detects the SCSI CD
drive, but I can't seem to find it to mount it. dmesg shows the CD drive as
sr0. Is there a special method to mount SCSI devices? I am sending the
results of the dmesg. I was hoping you could find a moment to take a look
and steer me in he correct direction. Thanks for all your help so far.

Richard Thomas


----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Franz" <mf...@ci...>
To: "Richard Thomas" <ri...@th...>
Cc: <tri...@li...>
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 3:55 AM
Subject: Re: [Trinux-talk] Re: RE:Kernel for Adaptec


>
> Still catching up on this thread :(
>
> First things first. I would create an adaptec boot floppy
>
> I would use a more recent boot image from
>
> http://www.io.com/~mdfranz/trinux/boot/17nov-2413
>
> Replace the bzimage on the disk with the one from
>
> http://trinux.sourceforge.net/kernel/2.4.5/adaptec/
>
> Then boot with the floppy and do a
>
> # dmesg
>
> make sure the Adaptec driver has been detected
>
> See if the devices sda1 sdb (or whatever) are detected
>
> My guess is they will not be because of the RAID.  Do you know which
> kernel driver is required?
>
> - mdf
>
>
> > The reason I need read-only access to the NTFS partition is so I can
> > create a bit-copy of the partition for forensic analysis. I want to
> > use dd to create the bit-copy. So, how do I get the kernel that
> > supports Adaptec into a boot.img file that I can burn to CD? I am
> > assuming that once I do this, the packages will load properly from the
> > SCSI CD drive during the boot process. Is this correct? I hope this
> > isn't a really bad newbie question. Thanks.
> >
>
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