See Below:
>
> > I also tried to access the Fugitsu M2694esa SCSI 1gig hard drive on a
> > different computer.
>
> I have two of those drives, but one is only a 640meg. I am not sure why
> the second is only 640, as they seem to have identical markings on them.
>
> > When I hooked it up to a Pentium box with an Adaptec
> > 2940au and a Seagate 4 gig, the Adaptec reported something about the 2
> > formatting types were incompatible and data might be corrupt. I then
hooked
> > the drive to the 2940 without the Seagate attached and it was recognized
> > with "no operating system found". I tried to low level format it with
> > utility in the 2940 bios. I had no luck there either. The 2940 would
> > report "no host adapter found" after a few seconds of attempted low
level
> > format. Would you (or anyone) know about this?
>
> I can guess that maybe the drives are formatted with a different block
> size, but I think that would be kind of strange for a PC based server.
> Unless maybe yours isn't quite as much PC based. I know IBM AS400
> (definetly not a PC) use a different block size.
I took another look at the error message it said:
"A drive larger than 1 GB has been detected with 64 head 32 sec
partitioning. This is not compatible with 255 head 63 sec translation that
has been enabled on this adapter."
>
> > Is this because it was
> > originally some special UNIX drive? I am thinking that the drive is
just
> > plain toast at this point. The server itself was a throw away that I
felt I
> > could put back into use. I don't know it's history.
>
> Are you famliar with SCSI already, or are you just learning? Are you
> familar with termination, scsi ID, termination power, etc?
Yes very. The termination etc. is correct. My only hope now is to try and
low level format it with the onboard adpatec it came from. That config
would be helpful. ;-)
Regards,
John
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