SCSI drive missing....

[orion13]

I installed a scsi controller card, and hooked up a couple of old 1G Seagate drives. The bios on the card shows the drives during boot up... but the drives are not there in W98se:confused: This is the fisrt time I've tried to use scsi (card was under $10, and the drives were FREE). Since I'm a newbie, I have no idea what to try:rolleyes: Could someone give me a few pointers?



SY-6VBA-133
Cel 300a @410
512M PC 133 @120
GeForce256 32M
WD Caviar 2.6G (IDE)
2 Seagate ST51080N(scsi)

Oh ... The controller card installed fine and shows up in device manager.

[Peter M]

I bet they're there (in device manager). You just don't see drive letters under "my computer", right? You need to put a partition and a file system onto each drive. In DOS words, use the fdisk and format utilities on them.

[orion13]

I checked in the device manager....and there they were:t! So....I put in the ol' boot disk...ran fdisk (THANKS;)Peter) One drive is bad, the other is GOOD. It works perfectly!

Thanks again,

Matt

[Peter M]

You might want to try re-formatting the "bad" drive. Really formatting, on a SCSI level, not the pretend-to-format that DOS utility "format" does.

You can do that from your SCSI card's BIOS, normally.

Or, being a SCSI newbie, you might just not have gotten the termination right, making one drive inoperable. Check that. You need to have termination enabled on both ends of the cable, and disabled everywhere inbetween.