[NTLUG:Discuss] Adding harddrives

[David Evans]

Are the working drives connected internally to the scsi card and the are 
the other two drives connected externally????

m m wrote:

>All:
>
>I think that there is a problem on the SCSI Controller,
>when at boot time, It only show 2 logical Hard Drive detected.
>
>on the hardware setting:
>I have a cable with 4 scsi connecters (DB68), 2 direct to  connect to the 
>harddrive (id# are 0,1) and
>the new added 2 hard drives have to use the SCA 2 connector (see the image 
>url
>http://www.ramelectronics.net/html/scsi_adapters.html#sca-80-LVD ) to 
>connect to  the  cable(id# set to 2,3) because they are different connector 
>(SCA)
>
>However, the  Hewlett Packard Compaq SMART-2SL SCSI Controller only "see" 2 
>hard drives. There are no any error/unusual messages pop up. Ran kudzu, it 
>don't detect the additional 2 hard drives.
>
>Can any one help?
>
>Thanks.
>
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>>From: David Stanaway <david at stanaway.net>
>>Reply-To: NTLUG Discussion List <Discuss at ntlug.org>
>>To: trryhend at gmail.com, NTLUG Discussion List <Discuss at ntlug.org>
>>Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Adding harddrives
>>Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 00:04:44 -0500
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>>Terry wrote:
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>>>On 4/15/06, m m <llliiilll at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>All:
>>>>
>>>>I  am  running Tao Linux with Compaq Smart 2SL RAID card.
>>>>I tried to add 2 hard drives into the box to gain some space.
>>>>Find that is not as what I did without RAID card.
>>>>Don't get any use information for google.
>>>>
>>>>What I need is to gain more space. Don't have to be RAID 2 or 3 or 
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>>5....
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>>>>Here is the basic information:
>>>>
>>>>[r at server home]# df -h
>>>>Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>>>>/dev/ida/c0d0p3       8.1G  6.2G  1.5G  82% /
>>>>/dev/ida/c0d0p1        97M  9.1M   83M  10% /boot
>>>>none                   62M     0   62M   0% /dev/shm
>>>>/dev/ida/c0d1p1       8.4G  6.7G  1.3G  84% /w3
>>>>
>>>>I have two SCSI hard drive,  Linux OS was installed on /dev/ida/c0d0p3, 
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>>and
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>>>>another one just for file storage mount as /w3
>>>>
>>>>How to I  get my another SCSI harddrive mounted as /w4 and /w5?
>>>>
>>>>Can any one help?
>>>>
>>>>Thanks.
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>Add lines to /etc/fstab file something like this:
>>>dev/sdc1    /w4    auto noauto,user     0  0
>>>dev/sdc2    /w5    auto noauto,user     0  0
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>>First, I would look at the contents of /proc/partitions and dmesg (Soon
>>after booting so you see it all).
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