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Zleaper
December 24th, 2001, 05:19 PM
Ok Installed a Adaptec 2940 adapter with a seagate st410800 drive.
I want to use this drive for storage of download files.
How do I get this setup running?
I need to fdisk it and format it.
What would the proceedure be
Device Man. shows the two with no !
There is power to the drive and it spins

I have the bios set to scis-a-c
The utility picks up and I go thought the yes and no questions to use format. But I think I need to fdisk this thing.
I am totaly fimilair with IDE prcatices
Help is much appreciated Thanks
Glen

Garak
December 27th, 2001, 01:23 AM
You can use any version of FDisk, but i would recommend running Adaptec's version "AFDISK" which comes as part of Ez-SCSI, hopefully that will have come with the card, just Fdisk the drive the same as any other normal drive and format. Good Luck.