Need help with Adaptec 2940 SCSI Controller

[Ancil Bethelmy]

I have an Adaptec AHA-2940/AHA-2940W PCI SCSI controller card and a
SeaGate ST15150N 4 GB Disk drive among some IDE disks on a Windows 98 SE
machine. I am unable to see the SCSI drive except if I set the disk to
be removable and assign it to be Drive D. When the system boots up I see
some BIOS diagnostics that say it is configured as Drive D. That gave me
the clue to setup the disk as Drive D in the devices tab. After
formatting the drive using the SCSI utility it shows up as a drive with
0 Bytes. I updated the Adaptec driver from a driver found at their web
site. Still no improvement.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please email me at:
mailto:abet...@bellsouth.net

Thanks In Advance,

Ancil.

[Honus Slohan]

I had the same problem to start on install of my SCSI Seagate 9 GB. However,
after using fdisk then doing the format all worked perfectly.

You might want to retry and be sure to Fdisk first. Then format.

regards

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[Folkert Rienstra]

"Ancil Bethelmy" <abet...@bellsouth.net> wrote in message news:3D1F903D...@bellsouth.net...

> I have an Adaptec AHA-2940/AHA-2940W PCI SCSI controller card and a
> SeaGate ST15150N 4 GB Disk drive among some IDE disks on a Windows 98 SE
> machine.

> I am unable to see the SCSI drive except if I set the disk to
> be removable and assign it to be Drive D.

I believe you just earned your Newbie qualification ;-) In order to have a
drive recognized in My Computer is has to be partitioned first. The mini-
malist way of doing that is using Fdisk .The alternative is by Large Floppy
formatting. That is accomplished by setting the drive as removable and then
format from Windows. That format however is only recognized by Windows.

> When the system boots up I see
> some BIOS diagnostics that say it is configured as Drive D.

> That gave me the clue to setup the disk as Drive D in the devices tab.

Some bioses name the physical drives by logical drive lettering that
has nothing to do with the logical drives that result from partitioning.

> After formatting the drive using the SCSI utility it shows up as a drive
> with 0 Bytes.

It must have failed the Low Level Format. You may have to repeat that.

> I updated the Adaptec driver from a driver found at their web
> site. Still no improvement.

No driver can repair a drive that was ruined by its owner.