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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

Using David's custom scsi/usb 2.4.31 kernel (with driver for my Adaptec 
card built in) I was able to copy BL2 to an external scsi drive and boot 
to it with loadlin.  Changed mtab to /dev/sda1.

Now I want to change the DOS hda drive to a DOS/linux 2GBscsi drive to 
which I can boot (and remove the IDE controller card that we used to 
replace bad onboard IDE card).

I ran low-level scsi format with Adaptec utility.  Linux fdisk formatted 
the drive (3 FAT16, 1 ext2).  Linux mke2fs on sda4.  DOS fdisk can't find 
the drive. Nor can hwinfo or nssi.  Syschk crashes if I load aspi8dos.sys.

DOS works with scsi zip and CD_ROM drives with their specific drivers and 
aspi8dos.sys for the Adaptec controller card.  Research suggests that you 
don't need a special hard disk driver.

How do I get this drive to be recognized?

We have 5 1-9GB scsi drives and three computers with scsi cards.  Mke2fs 
was nearly instant on the scsi partition (1GB).  The computers can all 
boot from scsi.  I set this drive with a jumper to id 0 but it is 
recognized as ID 1, so I set the scsi utility to boot from ID 1.  But I 
can't format the DOS boot partition.

Any ideas?

Sindi