New Subject (not about moving the lug)

[Cyber Source]

Hello all,
  After a couple of days fooling around with this, I find myself needing 
to ask the more learned of the group for a resolution.
  We have a Linux server here that I am very nervous about causing harm 
to, so my steps to install/change the system over to scsi have been very 
cautious and timid at best. Here's the situation.
  I have an IDE based Linux Mandrake 8.1 server that I wish to change 
over to a scsi based system. I have installed the "adaptec 29160" scsi 
card and u160scsi hard drive.
Mandrake 8.1 did detect the card on boot (kudzu) and said it configured 
it. The scsi drive was hooked up to the system while I still booted with 
the IDE based system. The card was recognized but the scsi drive was 
not, no /dev/sd?. I have tried other ways to rule out a problem with 
this as in doing an install with the card and drive seperately and it 
works fine. I then looked to the /etc/modules, /etc/modules.conf files 
and copied the info that was in those files (from the successful 
install) to that of the same files on the ide based drives to see if it 
would work but it has not. I also want to point out that on one boot it 
did pick up the drive and loaded the scsi module but has not since 
booting after (and not after changing any files). The reason for all 
this caution, is that Bob Meyer and I have a ton of time in customizing 
this system and it works great. We don't want to loose this 
customization. I have backed up the entire system, so here are my 
questions......
1. What are the necessary steps to get this scsi card recognized?
2. Do I have to run the insmod command or is it simply enough to have 
the necessary file/text in the /etc/modules and /etc/modules.conf files?
3. Are there more files to deal with aside from the /etc/modules and 
/etc/modules.conf files?
4. Is it possible to take a system that was backed up (using dump) from 
an ext2 partition and restore them to an ext3 partition?
5. I now have Linux Mandrake 8.2 (freshly downloaded) and was thinking 
of just running that to do an upgrade, with all the hardware installed 
(scsi adapter, ide based system still) and after success at that, then 
do a backup of the system and then copy all to the scsi drive and change 
the /etc/fstab, /etc/mtab and /etc/lilo.conf files.
I personally think it would be better to do number 5 above but it seems 
like cheating and I would really like to know what is wrong with it 
currently.
Any help, thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, 
peter at thecybersource.com