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Need Help with SCSI

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Kabrinski

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Found 2 older SCSI 4gb drives with a SCSI controller (LSI Logic 53C875/53C876). I am pretty sure that the drives work, as Windows can see them. Unable to format them so I can use them. They were pulled from an old G3, so they are formatted for Apple. I was told by a friend that I just need to low-level format and I should be able to use them. Anyone know if this is correct? And if so, what would be a good program to use to reformat?
 
as far as low level format is concerned; if the adapter concerned has a bios chip installed you should see a message displayed during post - showing BIOS date/version etc - with possibly a prompt to press <F2> or <F6> to access the configuration utilities. One of the utilities is low-level format;

However, if the scsi adapter you are using does feature a bios; you should be able to access/format the drive using FDISK or similar; Otherwise you need to have drivers installed for the OS (if the card does not have a bios rom, any devices attached will not be bootable) and these should allow you to use the OS utilities to format the drive

hth
 
LSI cards let you access their BIOS with Ctrl+C at startup. In there, you can do a low-level format. Then boot into Windows and partition and format the drives in Disk Management.
 
Thanks guys. I actually tried something else and was able to do it. I installed a different driver from the manufactorer (one that was for Win2k) and I was able to partition and format in Windows. I appreciate the advice though. I will keep everything in mind in case I run across other drives and/or cards.
 
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