[oclug] scsi question

Bill Omer draven at distmirr.com
Sat Mar 9 16:57:51 EST 2002


> Hay all;
> 
> trying to mount a mac scsi disk on my linux box via a loaned scsi card
> and the mount command fails. Anyone can tell me what Im doing wrong:
> 
> 1. Card installed and recognized via bios
> 2. Scsi card reports # 0:0 Conner which is fine.
> 3. Linux boots as normal and sees the card fine
> 4. depmod hfs <no issues>
> 5. scsi is compiled into the kernal
> 6. hfsutils and xhfsutils are installed and functional
> 7. mount -t hfs /dev/sda(0-8) /mnt fails with /dev/sda is unknown (so is
> /dev/sd (a-d))
> 
> read the scsi howto but not much help. Its probably something really
> stupid..:)
> 
> Best and thanks
> 
> Chris H.

Stupid question ...  but does /dev/sd{a-d} exist on your system?  
In other words, is ls -al /dev/sda0 true?

Bill



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