dsl and scsi disks

Forum: User Feedback
Topic: dsl and scsi disks
started by: gkingdsl

Posted by gkingdsl on Dec. 15 2005,20:57

I am having trouble getting dsl 2.0 to automount scsi disks. No problem with IDE disks though.

I have tried on two different systems (Dell Precision 650 and an HP xw6200).

Using the mount.app the drive appears but I get a message saying the drive is in use. So maybe the 'drive' is a virtual drive used by DSL for the filesystem?

I can get the scsi disk to mount up manually on the Dell by doing the following

sudo su
mkdir /mnt/sda1
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1

This has worked fine while i messed around with remastering dsl. But I would like to be able to use the automount tool for this instead.

I also tried changing the boot file by removing the noscsi parameter but that did not seem to work either.

Also I have tried this while running from cd and from memory (using the dsl toram cheat code).

Anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?

thanks

Posted by gkingdsl on Dec. 15 2005,21:00

I forgot to mention I tried using the latest Knoppix build simply to have another test point and the drive appears on the desktop and can be read from. So I am sure I am missing something in DSL's config.

Posted by AwPhuch on Dec. 15 2005,22:35

DSL isnt based off the latest KNOPPIX build...I dont think DSL supports SCSI drives

Brian
AwPhuch

Posted by roberts on Dec. 15 2005,22:42

Please see my very recent post < here >

Posted by gkingdsl on Dec. 16 2005,12:02

thanks for the info. I really like dsl and hate to have to re-invent the wheel. Guess I will be re-mastering knoppix instead for the scsi disk support. I had got knoppix down to 200mb before finding dsl guess I should have saved my work

If anyone else has information or a how-to on remastering dsl to include scsi disk support that would be great.

Nice work on the DSL distro btw it is really polished.

Posted by cbagger01 on Dec. 17 2005,05:06

I think the whole point of the "modules" function is to enable easy remastering to include additional drivers like SCSI drivers.

If you do not want to remaster, you can always save the appropriate driver file to a floppy disk and then load it at boot time using the

expert

boot command.