Red Hat

I am having some issues using SCSI device with Red Hat and was hoping that someone may have some ideas as to what the problem may be. Essentially, the device I am attempting to use is a media reader (called a MiroCID). This reader is externally connected via a SCSI cable that is plugged into a SCSI adapter card internally. The adapter plugs into a PCI slot on the motherboard (believe the hardware model is a SCSI Card 2940U). Upon booting up, the BIOS seems to recognize both the SCSI adapter card and the SCSI reader (connected through the adapter). When Linux boots, I get the message regarding the card/periphreal (via dmesg):

ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:08:03:0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ169
scsi2: Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36
<Adaptec 2940A Ultra SCSI adapter>
aic7860: Ultra Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 3/253 SCBs

(scsi2:A:0:0): refuses synchronous neogtiation. Using asynchronous transfers.
Vendor: FAIRCHLD Model: MICROCID Rev: 201C
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02

It seems to have automatically detected the necessary drivers and even lists the device correctly under SCSI devices in Hardware Settings. However, I was under the impression that whenever a card was connected (to be read) a new device would appear under the /dev directory as /dev/sdb, /dev/st0, /dev/scd, /dev/sg1 or something similiar. However, the only scsi device I can find is /dev/sda which I believe is the main hard drive for the machine. Does anyone have any advice as to how I can transfer data and preferably mount this device and use it similiar to a hard drive? If it helps, I am running Red Hat with kernel version 2.6.9-67.ELsmp



Doing:

cat /proc/scsi/scsi

Shows:

Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: ATA Model: ST3250310NS Rev: SN06
Type: Direct-access ANSI SCSI revision: 05

Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00
Vendor: FAIRCHLD Model: MICROCID Rev: 201C
Type: Direct-access ANSI SCSI revision: 02


cat /proc/scsi/scsi/aic7xxx/2

Shows:

Adaptec AIC7XXX driver version: 6.2.36
Adaptec 2940A Ultra SCSI adapter
aic7860: Ultra Single channel A, SCSI Id=7, 3/253 SCBs
Allocated SCBs: 4, SG List Length: 128

Serial EEPROM:
0x028d......
.
.
.
.

Target 0 Negoation Settings
User: 20.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 127)
Target 1 Negoation Settings
User: 20.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 127)
Goal: 3.300MB/s transfers
Curr: 3.300MB/s transfers
Channel A Target 1 Lun 0 Settings
Commands Queued 4
Commands Active 0
Command Openings 1
Max Tagged Openings 0
Device Queue Frozen Count 0
Target 3 Negoation Settings
User: 20.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 127)
Target 4 Negoation Settings
User: 20.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 127)
Target 5 Negoation Settings
User: 20.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 127)
Target 6 Negoation Settings
User: 20.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 127)
Target 7 Negoation Settings
User: 20.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 127)

It appears to me that all the hardware is installed and being detected correctly (so the drivers are ok?). I am just confused how to mount/read the media connected to the reader.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!
Chris

A few questions...

Are you terminating the connection properly?
What driver are you loading for the card?

Yes, I have to be terminating correctly (tried both with and without term enabled). The driver loaded for the card is aic7xxx