SCSI hard drives

Forum: HD Install
Topic: SCSI hard drives
started by: Bill B

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Posted by Bill B on Jan. 02 2006,16:40

I'd like to use an old IBM server that has an Adaptec SCSI controller with a small (40gig) hardrive for a hard drive install. I boot off of the CD and then open a prompt and type cfdisk. I am getting a message that no hard drive is found. I did this prevoiusly with an old IBM workstation with ATA drives and I was able to see the partion and delete it.
Does Damn Small support SCSI drives? If yes, how do I get it loaded?

Thnx

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Posted by roberts on Jan. 02 2006,20:19

DSL v1.5 and prior supported some scsi devices.
SCSI is not that popular and is too large for the new larger kernel and modules. We added SATA had to drop SCSI. However, all the scsi modules compiled for DSL v2.x can be found in the additional_modules.tar.gz which you can find < here >.

Probably best to try to place your required modules onto a floppy and boot with expert boot option.

HTH
Let us know

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Posted by Bill B on Jan. 03 2006,00:27

Thanks for the reply. Is there another flavor of Linux I might try for this old server? I was looking to do an HD install which    looks like I would be paddling upstream

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Posted by cbagger01 on Jan. 03 2006,12:18

DSL 1.5, knoppix or even DSL 2.0 (but for DSL 2.0 you will need to manually add the module for the SCSI driver to your initial ramdisk) will work fine.

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