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#help:How 2 start SCSI HD

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#195758From: Joe G GreerMay 7, 1994 9:39 PM

Hi everyone, I have a 486/50 that boots off one IDE hard drive and I need to access a SCSI disk also. The Host adapter I am using is an Adaptec 1540B and the BIOS is not enabled. Do I need to enable the BIOS so NT can see teh drive? How could I partition and fromat the drive in NT without defining the drive before NT boots? I need to get this fixed this weekend, so any help is very much appreciated. 🙂 Thanks, Joe G Greer II (76470,722) There are 2 Replies. Read action !

#195764From: Stephen Purpura [MVP]May 7, 1994 10:30 PM

Joe, Enable the BIOS on the 1540B and you should be fine. Stephen Purpura There is 1 Reply. Read action !

#196341From: Joe G GreerMay 10, 1994 5:04 AM

—————In Reference To————— Enable the BIOS on the 1540B and you should be fine. ——————————————— That workded fine. Thanks a bunch for the help on the weekend. Thanks, Joe G Greer II (76470,722) Read action !

#195771From: Stan WinstonMay 7, 1994 11:02 PM

Hi Joe, Your best bet is to have your SCSI BIOS enabled so that you will ensure proper operation with Windows NT. Windows NT uses the SCSI BIOS to determine the hard drive's geometry. It is this geometry that is essentially the definition of the hard drive attached to the SCSI bus. If you want to partition and format the drive outside of Windows NT, you may boot your system with MS-DOS and use FDISK to partition your drive and FORMAT to format it. Thank you for using Windows NT. -Stan [MS] There is 1 Reply. Read action !

#196342From: Joe G GreerMay 10, 1994 5:05 AM

—————In Reference To————— Your best bet is to have your SCSI BIOS enabled so that you will ensure proper operation with Windows NT. ——————————————— Yep that worked fine. —————In Reference To————— Thank you for using Windows NT. ——————————————— Thanks for your help on the weekend. 🙂 TTYL, Joe G Greer II (76470,722) Read action !