I loaded a scsi driver during install but I can't see my drives?

ohh.
do you know how to mount it?
as root type 'mount'
in the terminal
see if anything like /dev/sda1 is listedif not, you need to mount it by doing… as root
mkdir /mnt/sda1
It seems like the driver is loaded during bootup, as dmesg says: SCSI subsystem initiated mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1
do those 2 commands.
stex: no version for "struct_module" found: kernel tainted.
stex: Promise SuperTrak EX Driver Version: 2.9.0.13

What does kernel tainted mean? it means that you loaded a kernal modual that wasn't compiled with it or something
it could be ok.
So the driver should load ok?
I've connected a RAID-5 array of disks to this controller, will they be available under /dev/sda1 ?
if the partitions are already made and its the first scsi device then yes I'm not sure about raid devices
I never used them

No, only the raid-5 have been set up - the drives are still clean
no partitions or file systems are set up yet oh ok
then you do not want to mount it like I said
ok, is there any kind of tool I can use to setup the drives? you would not "see" it unfromated
yes
fdisk
and fsck
then you need to fdisk the device
like fdisk /dev/sda try /sbin/fdisk /dev/sda
or there should be a graphical tool in gnome
under settings called "logical disk management" or something
fisk says: unable to open /dev/sda /devsdb

er
/dev/sdb
how can I check if the driver is working and that my disks are recognized by fedora?
fdisk -l
it will list the devices such a long software update after just installing fc5
been downloading packages for like an hour
you must have a slow connection
fdisk -l only show /dev/hda

how do I initiate the raid5 drives?
software or hardware? I don't know about that
hardware, that's why I loaed the driver
you don't do that in linux
you do that in the raid controller bios
then linux just sees it as a normal device interesting.

Yes, but I already did that - but I need to use Linux to format the array
so Linux needs to see it first
well it depends what device linux sees it as
i doubt its hda

hda is the system drive
so you have to find out first if linux supports your raid controller
yes i figured that
Fedora Core 5 is supported - I got the driver directly from the manufacturer
ok then read the instructions from the manufactor on how to load it