My SCSI drive is a 2.1Gb drive, but Fdisk only see 1GB. Please help.

[Bad Dude]

Hi,
I have a Seagate ST325550N 2.1GB drive. But when I go to FDISK to make a partition, it only comes up with 1024Bytes. Please help me get back the 2.1GB.
My controller is Adaptec AHA-1520

Thanks.

 

[Bad Dude]

Can anyone help me.

 

[Bad Dude]

No one knows the answer to this problem?

 

[borealiss]

i think you have to enable support for disks bigger than 1 gig on older computers in the scsi bios, if it has one. if your bios on you computer doesn't support disks bigger than 1 gig, i think you're outta luck. you can go with multiple partitions though. you must have an old motherboard. check for the latest bios release. i think this is it.

 

[Sir Fredrick]

You may need to do a low level format (should be an option in the card's BIOS).

Your motherboard's BIOS should be irrelevant since that would only control your IDE drives.

You might want to try partition magic if the LLF doesn't fix it, it's a very easy to use partitioning program. The only problem is, an old drive like that isn't hardly worth the cost of the partitioning software...but it's good to have anyway.

 

[Bad Dude]

My MB will see drives as large as whatever I have. I got an Abit BX6 Rev. 2. I cannot partition it multiple b/c all it shows is 1Gb instead of the 2Gb. So the MB is not a problem. I wonder what else can it be?

 

[jsbush]

Ok, this drive was pulled out of a Novel server. I think there is a program on Seagates web site to low level format the hard drive, that would probably do the trick.


BTW: Sorry for this inconvinece.

 

[borealiss]

are you enabling support for large disks when you start fdisk?

 

[Bad Dude]

Hi Jason,
Can you point the link out to me b/c I cannot seem to find it.
Thanks.

 

[jsbush]

Try this. LMK if it works.

 

[Bad Dude]

Thanks Jason. I will let you know if it works.

 

[Zach]

You might need to check the SCSI BIOS, and comparing the recognization of IDE drives to your SCSI drive wont work because they do use the seperate BIOS's for detecting drives.. also, do a low level format, it will be in your SCSI BIOS. Do it even if you get it fixed by other means, es bueno!

 

[jsbush]

Some software and bios update on the scsi card.