Linux guest, SCSI drives at /dev/sd* do not exist

[Stefan Lasiewski]

I am attempting to install Centos 5.4 on a Parallels 4.0.3848 machine on my Mac.

I created a new Virtual Machine. Under "Hardware", I created two image files for two SCSI drives-- "Hard Disk 1" at SCSI 0:0 and "Hard Disk 2" at SCSI 1:0.

When I start this machine, the icons for the two drives are active. The BIOS screen says "SCSI HDD found" for two devices.

However, when I try to install CentOS 5.4, the installer does not see any SCSI devices and there are no devices at /dev/sd*.

What can I do so that Linux will see these SCSI devices? Does Parallels support SCSI drives for Guest operating systems?

Thank you,

-= Stefan

 

[Stefan Lasiewski]

Can anyone help here?

Thanks,

-= Stefan

 

[mmika]

Parallels emulates BUSLOGIC SCSI adapter.
But its driver was moved out modern linux kernels on RH-based distributives.
So It's impossible to get SCSI HDD work with default kernel.

 

[Stefan Lasiewski]

Thank you for the response.

Are there any published instructions for loading the BUSLOGIC SCSI drivers by hand? Again, I've googled around and I've searched in these forums without much luck.