newbie hard drives don't show

[Phil Schaffner]

On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 16:44, David Branine wrote:
> I have 3 external scsi hard drives and 1 external
> firewire hard drive, all used for storage.  The scsi
> card and firewire card are listed in hardware, but the
> drives don't show.  I need help to mount them or
> whatever you call it so that they show and I can use them.

I don't use Firewire so no help there.  For SCSI:

0. Login as root.
1. Open a console window if in X session.
2. Type "fdisk -l"
3. If you see drives listed such as /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc Then
	man fdisk
	man mke2fs
	man mount
	see /etc/fstab
else
	You have a hardware problem.

Good luck.