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

[Matthew F. <mf...@ci...>]

Actually I patched a 2.4.5 kernel with the RAID drivers and sent it to
Richard -- I can post it if anybody else is interested.

- mdf

>
> 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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> --------------------
> Timothy Burt
> Internet Specialist
>