SCSI drive question?

[Double Trouble]

I installed a Tekram DC315U SCSI controller in a friend's Dell PC a couple of days ago along with a Fujitsu M1606SAU 1G scsi drive. Everything installed seemingly without a hitch, and the controller 'finds' the drive on the scsi bus. I was able to low level format the drive using the Tekram utility that comes with the controller..... so far so good.

For some reason, when I boot into dos on a win98 machine, FDISK does not 'see' the 1G scsi drive, only the IDE drive. thus, I can't FDISK and format the drive, and the drive is not available for use in Windoze.

Am I missing something here? Anyone have any ideas?

 

[pm]

You need to run with the ASPI DOS driver. You need to add a line to your config.sys file to use it. My Tekram card also came with it's own version of FDISK to use called TFDISK. I wasn't sure why, so I ended up using that instead of MS's FDISK.

The ASPI driver for that card is here: ftp://ftp.tekram.com/scsi/3X5/DC315.ZIP

(anyone know how to get the Link BBS command to work with ftp: rather than http:?)

 

[Double Trouble]

Thanks for the input pm, I had the driver disk but didn't realize you had to install the ASPI dos driver. I've used a few other scsi controllers and drives before, and the HD's connected to the controllers were always 'recognized' by FDISK without loading any drivers.

Just out of curiosity (maybe I can learn something here! 🙂), what causes you to have to install the ASPI dos driver for some controllers and not others? Is it only for those controllers that don't have a BIOS chip installed so the OS can't use INT13 ??

Thanks again for your help 🙂

 

[Hard_Boiled]

I don't know how you booted into DOS, but when I use my Windows 98 startup disk it has drivers for Adaptec cards for sure, and probably some others. But the SCSI drivers that Microsoft has for DOS do not seem to work with the Tekram cards. Not a problem though, it's easy enoguh to modify your boot disk or whatnot.