Dear Chad,
>From my experience, low-level formatting SCSI drives is risky at
best, even when using the manufacturer's software. Best I can
recommend is checking with Fujuitsu; send email to their technical
support.
It may be a controller/BIOS problem - did you switch controllers or
machines? I recently had a 2GB SCSI drive register as only 1MB,
no matter what I did - till I moved to another computer, with different
(newer) BIOS, and a different SCSI card, and then was able to see
the entire 2MB.
However, I have had a couple of (old) SCSI drives that I
experimented with this ...and never was able to return them to
service. In terms of time spent trying to repair, it may be cheaper
just to go out and purchase a new drive.
Anthony J. Albert
On 21 Sep 99, at 3:23, Chad A. Fernandez wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I am having problems with a Fujitsu SCSI drive. It has greater that 1024
>cylinders, and is about 1 or 1.2 gigs. I decided to low level it using
>SCSIFMT (part of Adaptec's EZ-SCSI software). Now, when trying to use
>Novell's FDISK from DR-DOS 6.0, it hangs at the end of creating a primary
>DOS partition, using the whole disk. Adaptecs AFdisk works okay, until you
>exit, and pull a directory....only 800 and some megs appears. Norton's
>Speedisk shows the drive as partially full! The Fdisk that comes with
>MS-DOS 5 doesn't create anything that is usefull (or accessible) either.
>
>Did I mess up the drive when I low-levelled it, or was the drive going
>bad anyways? It had sat for idle about a week, after constant use.
>
>I low-leveled an IBM and it turned out fine, although, it might be less then
>1024 cylinders too.
>
>What other low level programs are out there?
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>From the Unisys 386DX-33 of
>Chad A. Fernandez in Battle Creek, MI USA
>
>Net-Tamer V 1.12 Beta - Test Drive
>
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