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

mkdosfs formatted the scsi drive but DOS does not assign it a drive 
letter.
How does one access a scsi hard disk in DOS?
According to the book, scsi drives are slower than IDE drives in a 
single-tasking system and the only advantage is in a multitasking system 
with two or more scsi drives, where they can process commands 
independently.

I may give up and just use a scsi drive for linux since we found a 9GB, to 
replace a 4GB IDE, and copy all our sw cds to .raw files since I was told 
cd's don't last very long.

If I could get a second drive working in DOS, I could use one partition of 
it with linux and compile on that drive while using the other drive to go 
online.

 On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, sindi keesan wrote:

> 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 does not like to have ide and scsi cd-rom drivers loaded at the same 
time).

> 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?
>
>
> Sindi