scsi question

[papichulo1968]

I was given a scsi drive and the card to go along with it. Im runing win xp pro, this is the dilema, I went home plug the card on the available pci slot and conected the ribbon cable to the card and the other end to the scsi drive. I started up my pc, it found the scsi card and installed drivers for it, now If I go to system under control panel I can see the scsi drive there under my drives and says no conflic even shows that it is a 4.3 gig, I can also see the scsi card under device manager and it says is running fine, what I dont see is the drive under my computer icon, as a new drive in fact if I dont go to harware manager I never know the drive is installed, so what can I do to get this drive operational, so that i can installed software on it??

 

[mastertech01]

You need to go to disk management, and initialize the disk.

 

[papichulo1968]

how I go about doing that? I do recall that a boot up screen did mention that no drives were initiallized, were I find disk management , under windows xp?

 

[mastertech01]

Im using 2K but have used XP. Its under Computer Management. If I recall right it can be a little tricky to find in XP. I recommend going to the help section and search disk management. XP is kind enough to hyperlink your way to each applicable section.

 

[papichulo1968]

excellent, thank you very much.

 

[papichulo1968]

excellent, thank you very much.