Installing Linux on SCSI

[Snow_death]

I have a Intel i960 SCSI Card with 4 Seagate ST39175LW Barracuda 18LP 9.1GB Ultra SCSI-II Hard Drive's. I am wanting to install Slackware 10.1. I try installing the SCSI.S kernal and when I do Fdisk -l or cfdisk I either get Fatal Error: cannot read disk drive or read only access. Please help me.

[LondoJowo]

Do you have these drives in a raid array? If so most Linux distro's won't install on raid.

[Snow_death]

I saw
http://www.slackware.com/install/bootdisk.php

and I tried all the kernals. I have never installed linux on scsi so I do not knwo where to start. like I said I tried loading all of the kernals

like Bare.i is for IDE
there is SCSI.S, SCSI2.S ect..

[LondoJowo]

Is the card actually made by Intel or does it just use the i960 chip? You may need to check with manufacturer to see if there's any special requirements when using a Linux Distro.

[Snow_death]

The card looks to be made by Mylex (MYL-8623 with a intel i960 chipset.

[LondoJowo]

I can't find anywhere of people having problems install Linux on your card. Do you have the card/drives setup correctly? Has any other Operating System been installed on the drives?

Here's a link to the manual for the SCSI card, it's a Mylex AcceleRAID 200.
http://www.lsilogic.com/downloads/docs.do?product=3253

[Snow_death]

Yes, Windows 2000 Server is / has been installed. I wanted to format and install Slackware

[LondoJowo]

Download Knoppix or one of the other live CD's, maybe the drive can be seen/formatted, if so maybe you can install Slackware after that. Then again maybe Slackware doesn't have the drivers for your card pre-built into their kernel.

[Snow_death]

well good news it showed my drives when it loaded the kernal (raid.s) but it still says Opened Disk Read-only - you have no permission to write

[LondoJowo]

Do you still have Windows 2000 installed? If so it due to the fact that Win2k is using NTFS,

Next question do you want to keep your Win2k installl?