(will update to FC3 soon) FC1 x86 I just added an Adaptec 29160 and for now one old hard drive a snip of dmesg gives me Attached scsi disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 SCSI device sda: 17755614 512-byte hdwr sectors (9091 MB) sda: unknown partition table but no matter what I do, where I look cant find my disk like fdisk /dev/sda give unable to open device. /proc/scsi/scsi only has my two pseudo scsi devices in it Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: ATAPI Model: CD-RW 52X24X Rev: MB53 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00 Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD/DVDW SD-R5372 Rev: TU53 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 doing echo "scsi add-single-device 1 0 0 0" > /proc/scsi/scsi only adds an entry do /log/messges, does not change /proc/scsi/scsi s output also /proc/scsi seems to be a bit shy of things Am I missing something really simple ? TIA, -PETE in /proc/scsi >find /proc/scsi /proc/scsi /proc/scsi/sg /proc/scsi/sg/version /proc/scsi/sg/host_strs /proc/scsi/sg/host_hdr /proc/scsi/sg/hosts /proc/scsi/sg/device_strs /proc/scsi/sg/device_hdr /proc/scsi/sg/devices /proc/scsi/sg/debug /proc/scsi/sg/def_reserved_size /proc/scsi/sg/allow_dio /proc/scsi/ide-scsi /proc/scsi/ide-scsi/0 /proc/scsi/scsi the SCSI part of dmesg ... SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 hdc: attached ide-scsi driver. hdd: attached ide-scsi driver. scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices Vendor: ATAPI Model: CD-RW 52X24X Rev: MB53 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD/DVDW SD-R5372 Rev: TU53 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE] parport0: Printer, HEWLETT-PACKARD DESKJET 895C scsi1 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36 <Adaptec 29160N Ultra160 SCSI adapter> aic7892: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs blk: queue f6fbde14, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) (scsi1:A:0): 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15) Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST410800N Rev: 0016 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 blk: queue f6fbdc14, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) scsi1:A:0:0: Tagged Queuing enabled. Depth 32 Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 52x/52x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray sr1: Hmm, seems the drive doesn't support multisession CD's Attached scsi disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 SCSI device sda: 17755614 512-byte hdwr sectors (9091 MB) sda: unknown partition table scsi : 1 host left. The key being