Mounting Internal HD in Redhat

[rdimicco]

Hi,

I'm the ultimate Newbie! Here goes!

I have just installed a Redhat 2.2.14.5.0 OS using an IDE drive. I have attached
a SCSI drive using a SCSI controller card and cable. I can't seem to mount the SCSI drive to see it. I've tried the standard:

1) mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1. After putting it in fstab.
2) mount -t ext2 /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1

I think my sda drive has two partitions. Ditto 1 and 2 for those. Can someone please help!

Clueless in Okinawa

[thinkfree]

What error message do you get? Make sure sda1 folder is there in /mnt

[devils casper]

Hi,

I'm the ultimate Newbie! Here goes!

I have just installed a Redhat 2.2.14.5.0 OS using an IDE drive. I have attached
a SCSI drive using a SCSI controller card and cable. I can't seem to mount the SCSI drive to see it. I've tried the standard:

1) mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1. After putting it in fstab.
2) mount -t ext2 /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1

I think my sda drive has two partitions. Ditto 1 and 2 for those. Can someone please help!

Clueless in Okinawa

Hi and Welcome !

Execute this

su -
fdisk -l 
df -h

Post output here.

[rdimicco]

What error message do you get? Make sure sda1 folder is there in /mnt

The error message is:

"The kernel does not recognize /dev/sda1 as a block device (maybe 'insmod driver?') "

Thanks for your help.

[rdimicco]

Here are some ideas.. maybe:

1) I went into '/proc/scsi/scsi file and it said that no devices were attached.

I have the SCSI attached to the computer, and the SCSI Inventory (Ctrl-A) lists it as attached.

2) I also went into '/proc/partitions' and it only listed the IDE partitions.

3) I also went into '/proc/devices' and it did not list any 'sda' as being one of the block devices in the system.

But in /etc/devices, all the sda's are listed as 'brw-rw----' so can I assume that they are block devices ready for mounting?

I'm just clueless right now. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Clueless in Okinawa

[devils casper]

Could you post the output of commands posted in post #3 ?

[rdimicco]

Sorry, here it is;

fdisk -l
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 3 24066 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 4 4998 401223337+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 4 4989 40050013+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 4990 4998 72261 82 Linux swap

df -h
FileSystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5 38G 716M 35G 2% /
/dev/hda1 23M 2.4M 19M 11% /boot

Thanks for your help,

Just plain clueless

[devils casper]

Redhat 2.2.14.5.0 doesn't support SCSI disks. Post the output of uname -a command here.

[rdimicco]

Output of uname.

uname <enter>

Linux

So all I get is 'Linux'. Hope this helps.

Many thanks for sticking with me on this! Us Newbies probably come up with some really clueless stuff.

rdimicco

[devils casper]

Its uname -a.

uname -a