[gentoo-user] Advansys SCSI Not Available on 2005.0 LiveCD

[Drew Tomlinson]

I've used FreeBSD for about 4 years but am new to Linux.  After starting 
with Fedora Core 3 two weeks ago, I quickly learned about "rpm hell" 
once I built a custom kernel to support my hardware.  I missed the ports 
system with which I was familiar in FreeBSD.  Several people suggested 
Gentoo might be a better distro for what I wanted so I checked out the 
site and liked what I saw.

So no I have a minimal 2005.0 LiveCD booted and am logged in via ssh.  
I'm following the installation handbook section 4 regarding 
partitioning.  However I don't seem to have my SCSI drives available.  I 
have 3 drives in the system as follows:

160 GB IDE drive attached to the PATA (or IDE) connector on a Promise 
150 SATA controller.
18 GB SCSI drive attached to an Advansys card
36 GB SCSI drive attached to an Advansys card

The only device I seem to have is /dev/sda1 which fdisk reports as a 163 
GB drive.  So I assume that this is my IDE drive seen as a SCSI device 
because it's attached to the Promise SATA controller?  And if my 
assumption is correct, how can I enable the Advansys controller?  If 
possible, I'd prefer to do it without rebooting because I won't be near 
the console for about 7 more hours.  I'm at work.  System is at home.

Thanks for any advice or suggestions,
Drew
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