[TriLUG] SCSI Question for a Linux newbie

Craig Duncan craigduncan at nc.rr.com
Tue Jan 29 15:48:13 EST 2002


Interesting: email from the future! 

On Tuesday 29 January 2002 06:38 pm, you wrote:
> I have a Western Digital PCI SCSI controller, when I cat /proc/pci I see
> the following:
>
>
> PCI devices found:
>   Bus  0, device   0, function  0:
>     Host bridge: Intel Corporation 430FX - 82437FX TSC [Triton I] (rev 2).
>       Master Capable.  Latency=32.
>   Bus  0, device   7, function  0:
>     ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371FB PIIX ISA [Triton I] (rev 2).
>   Bus  0, device   7, function  1:
>     IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371FB PIIX IDE [Triton I] (rev 2).
>       Master Capable.  Latency=32.
>       I/O at 0x3000 [0x300f].
>   Bus  0, device  17, function  0:
>     Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139 (rev 16).
>       IRQ 9.
>       Master Capable.  Latency=32.  Min Gnt=32.Max Lat=64.
>       I/O at 0x6000 [0x60ff].
>       Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf4000000 [0xf40000ff].
>   Bus  0, device  18, function  0:
>     SCSI storage controller: Western Digital 33C296A (rev 0).
>       IRQ 11.
>       Master Capable.  Latency=32.  Min Gnt=5.Max Lat=6.
>       I/O at 0x6100 [0x61ff].
>       Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf4001000 [0xf40010ff].
>   Bus  0, device  19, function  0:
>     VGA compatible controller: 3Dfx Interactive, Inc. Voodoo 3 (rev 1).
>       IRQ 10.
>       Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf0000000 [0xf1ffffff].
>       Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf2000000 [0xf3ffffff].
>       I/O at 0x6200 [0x62ff].
>
> Obviously, I the pci bus sees the controller but I don't have a /proc/scsi
> directory at all and I don't have an /dev/sdX mounted anywhere on my box.
> What do I need to do to get my SCSI drive so it's recognized on my linux
> box?
>
> Andy
>
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