thanks to everyone who made suggestions about my scsi card. I gave up in the end (as did several others who were in the know).
Now I have a working card and linux knows its there, how do I mount up the scsi peripherals so that my students can access them via SAMBA.
None of the scsi peripherals are avaialbe at the moment through KDE, I have tried.
Sorry to be so simlistic, we all have to start somewhere
John Kinchin