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

[<tb...@ti...>]

If the SCSI will detect a disk OK, then you might load an older 2.2 kernel
based OS on a small, temporary scsi boot drive.  Hook it into the scsi
chain and boot from it.

Mount the (now accessable thru the Dell Rpm) Raid disks and do whatever 
you need to.. Or dd from the raid device (which might be found in 
/dev/rd??) to a waiting empty scsi drive.

The extra work involved in getting Trinux to see the raid disks, may not 
be worth the small cost of a scsi disk....

On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Richard Thomas wrote:

> 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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