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Sindi Keesan wrote
> I actually tried that, only it was a Slackware 10 kernel. I did some
> Googleing and found a Slackware kernel specifically designed for old IBM
> PCs that use the MCA bus (it was called ibmmca). When I loaded it in
> place of the BL default kernel, it properly detected an SCSI bus, and
> (possibly) the hard drives. It did all sorts of checks, and said it
> found SCSI devices.

IBM PS/2?  Is this a 386?

> However, I got a bunch of errors when the kernel tried to load the hard
> disk, it couldn't find Linux data on it, then gave me a FAT error (the
> drive had FAT16, I believe), then looked for a reiserFS partition, then
> loaded initfs.gz, which still could not mount the SCSI drive (I edited
> the file in it to point to /dev/sda's instead of /dev/hda's). But that
> was the closest I've gotten so far :)

mount -t msdos /dev/sda1 should mount a DOS FAT16 drive.
Maybe that kernel cannot handle FAT16?

> Is it possible I need drives for the hard drive? I checked it, it's an
> IBM WDS 3100 100mb hard drive, the SCSI pin things are set to an SCSI ID
> of 6, and M.

Is your scsi drive plugged into an ISA controller card?  I think for those 
you would need to specify parameters when loading the scsi controller 
driver. Maybe the scsi ID?  I have not used one.