Using The Scsi Card 2940U2W And Scsi Peripherals; Using Scsi Peripherals; Hard Disk Drives - Adaptec 2940U2W User Manual

SCSI Card 2940U2W User's Reference
Using the SCSI Card
2940U2W and SCSI
Peripherals
This section provides useful information on using the SCSI Card
2940U2W and your SCSI peripherals. For specific information, refer
to the documentation that came with your SCSI peripheral.

Using SCSI Peripherals

Hard Disk Drives

Every SCSI hard disk drive must be physically low-level for-
matted, partitioned, and logically formatted before it can be
used to store data. SCSI hard disks are physically low-level for-
matted at the factory and do not usually need to be formatted
again.
If you connect a new SCSI hard disk drive to your SCSI card,
you must partition and logically format the drive. For DOS
and Windows (3.x and 95) use the DOS Fdisk and Format com-
mands (see your computer, DOS, and Windows documenta-
tion). For other operating systems, see your operating system
documentation.
If you are booting from a SCSI hard disk drive, make sure the
Hard Disk (or Drives) setting in your computer's CMOS setup
program is set to None or No Drives Installed, as is required
for SCSI hard disk drives. See your computer documentation
for details.
If both SCSI and non-SCSI (for example, IDE) disk drives are
installed, then the non-SCSI disk drive is typically the boot
drive. If your computer supports BBS (BIOS Boot Specifica-
tion), both SCSI and non-SCSI disk drives can coexist and you
can specify which drive to boot from. Refer to your computer
documentation for more information.
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