Formatting And Partitioning A Scsi Hard Disk - Epson ExpressStation User Manual

Formatting and Partitioning a SCSI Hard Disk

Before you can use your SCSI devices, you must logically
format the hard disk drives and partition them for use with
your operating system(s). Then you can install your operating
system files on the drive you will use to boot the computer.
If you are installing MS-DOS, use the FDISK command to
format and partition the drives. If you are using another
operating system along with MS-DOS, be sure to leave room
when you run FDISK to create partitions for the other operating
system. See your MS-DOS manuals for instructions on running
FDISK.
If you will be using three or more SCSI hard disk drives with
MS-DOS, you will need to install the SCSI device drivers
(described in your
partition the third drive.
Follow these steps to format and partition SCSI hard disk
drives in a system with three or more SCSI hard disk drives:
1. Use the MS-DOS FDISK command to format and partition
the SCSI hard disk drive you will use to boot your system.
Remember to leave room for other operating system
partitions if you will install another operating system along
with MS-DOS.
2. Install the operating system files on the hard disk as
described in your MS-DOS manuals.
3. Follow the steps in your
MS-DOS SCSI drivers on the first SCSI hard disk drive.
4. Now run FDISK from your first SCSI hard disk drive to
format and partition the rest of the drives.
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