From: pundsack@sun13.vlsi.waterloo.edu (Mark Pundsack) Subject: Re: Easy Questions, maybe? on SCSI and X Date: Tue, 26 May 1992 18:14:36 GMT
In article <1259@yetti.UUCP> g-step@cs.yorku.ca (Neal Stephenson) writes:
>Hi,
> I have two questions pertaining to different machines. I have
>Linux on my home machine RLL drive, 4M ram, 5M swap, Vga. it works
>fine installation was a breaze. So I try my work machine, a lot
>better, 16M ram, 486, SVGA, huge SCSI drive, great perfect hardware. I
>got the SCSI boot disk and 0.95 root . It boots identifies the drive,
>then fdisk does not work. what am I missing do, I have to make new
>entries in /dev If someone could help me out I'd appreciate it. (I
>read the FAC and didn't see anything).
> Thanks,
> Neal.
I also have a SCSI drive and have booted Linux from floppy. It boots fine
and recognizes the controller (Adaptec 1542a) and both the hard drive and
tape drive. The problem is that fdisk doesn't return anything and pfdisk
doesn't seem to work.
Any ideas? I have read the FAQ, but I thought that if I was using the 0.96
release, that there shouldn't be any problems.
On a related note, is there any way for Linux to use the tape drive?
Obviously it is aware of it, but will it be able to control it and how do
I get at it? I didn't see anything about a /dev for a tape drive. I would
have thought that I would need a /dev specifically for my tape drive type.
It is a Tandberg using QIC525.
Thanks in advance,
Mark Pundsack
pundsack@sun14.vlsi.waterloo.edu