Using The Scsi Card 2940Uw Pro And Scsi Devices; Using Scsi Devices; Hard Disks - Adaptec 2940UW User Manual

Using the SCSI Card
2940UW Pro and SCSI
Devices
This section provides useful information on using the SCSI Card
2940UW Pro and your SCSI devices. For specific information, refer
to the documentation that came with your SCSI device.

Using SCSI Devices

Hard Disks

Every SCSI hard disk must be physically low-level
formatted, partitioned, and logically formatted before it can be
used to store data. SCSI hard disks are physically low-level
formatted at the factory and do not usually need to be
formatted again.
If you connected a new SCSI hard disk to your SCSI card, you
must partition and logically format the hard disk. For DOS and
Windows (3.x, 95, 98) use the DOS Fdisk and Format
commands (see your computer, DOS, and Windows
documentation). For other operating systems, see your
operating system documentation.
If you are starting from a SCSI hard disk, 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 disks. See your computer documentation for
details.
If both SCSI and non-SCSI (for example, IDE) hard disks are
installed, then the non-SCSI hard disk is typically the boot
drive. If your computer supports BBS (BIOS Boot
Specification), both SCSI and non-SCSI hard disks can co-exist
and you can specify which hard disk to start from. Refer to
your computer documentation for more information.

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