I've put together a system consisting of a Supermicro PIIIDR3 with onboard Adaptec single channel ulta 160 SCSI controller. There are two Seagate X15 U160 drives and an IBM 75GB IDE drive.
The mainboard BIOS shows the IDE drive fine. Onboard SCSI configuration utility sees the two X15's (device 0 and 1). Termination is enabled on mainboard with a terminator at end of ribbon. Drive termiation power is off since mainboard provides power.
The problem is when I enter FDISK. It prompts for large drive support then enter either Y or N dumps me back out to A: prompt. I type fdisk /status and get a no fixed drives present message. I then try a 3rd party fdisk program, and it returns an error. I then try to boot up with win2k CD which also gives an error after all system files are loaded.
I even disabled the IDE controller with the same results. I don't understand why the SCSI BIOS and system BIOS see all the drives fine, but fdisk utilities don't.
Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated.
The mainboard BIOS shows the IDE drive fine. Onboard SCSI configuration utility sees the two X15's (device 0 and 1). Termination is enabled on mainboard with a terminator at end of ribbon. Drive termiation power is off since mainboard provides power.
The problem is when I enter FDISK. It prompts for large drive support then enter either Y or N dumps me back out to A: prompt. I type fdisk /status and get a no fixed drives present message. I then try a 3rd party fdisk program, and it returns an error. I then try to boot up with win2k CD which also gives an error after all system files are loaded.
I even disabled the IDE controller with the same results. I don't understand why the SCSI BIOS and system BIOS see all the drives fine, but fdisk utilities don't.
Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated.
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