ASUS P2BS OR P2BLS owners or anyone with SCSIFMT please help

[pug]

Hello,

I purchased a P2Bs used. However, the disk containing the SCSI formatter is missing. Can someone please email the info. on the missing diskette. I have the SCSI driver diskette but that is all.

Please help,

thanks

Pug

 

[Sir Fredrick]

I have a P2B-DS. I don't know where that disk is, I've never had to use it. When the SCSI card is initializing and scanning for drives, press CTRL-A. Go to disk utilities, and it will scan the SCSI bus, and give you a list of all your drives. Select the one you want to format, hit enter and it will give you two options, verify or format. Guess which one you want

 

[pug]

Hello Sir Frederick,

My problem is that I can not format the drive... when I goto Format it hangs...

The drive is always crunching away, Could it be a disk crash.

I bought the drive recently have never been able to get it format. It is a 2.1 GB Atlas 1 Wide.

How can I low level format a drive that doesn't have a letter assigned to it??? When I am in Windows explorer the drive never shows.

Pug

 

[Sir Fredrick]

Does it "hang" at the screen where it warns you that formatting could take a long time? That's poor design IMO, because I thought I was having problems there too, but in actuality it displays that message the whole time and does not give you any indication of it's progress.

 

[pug]

Hey Sir,

No actually. It gives me an error message stating that there is not enough disk space left to format. However the drive has never been formatted. It states on the previos screen that the drive is blank.

very odd.

Pug

 

[arthurb1]

Try to get a new drive, that shounds like a problem with your drive, and when you are low-level formatting ANY drive, best bet is to put your system on a UPS or something, cause if the computer goes off while you are low leveling, you will have a tough time getting those drives to work again.

 

[pug]

I have started a new thread that is far more descriptive.

Thanks for all your help and please feel free to respond in the new thread.

Pug

 

[Sir Fredrick]

link?