Need to format two SCSI drives

[jgubjr]

I'm running Windows 2000 Professional and boot off of a Quantum IDE drive.

I've installed two additional SCSI HDD drives as well as a SCSI CD drive and a SCSI CD-R drive.

I'm using an Adaptec AHA-2940 Ultra SCSI adapter. (The system tells me it's working properly; as a matter of fact, when I boot the system lists for me each of the four installed SCSI devices). My problem is only Aspi CD-Rom driver installs. I can use each of the CD drives. But Aspidisk does not install..."NO SCSI LOGICAL DRIVES TO SUPPORT" is the message I get when I boot.

I assume I'm getting this message because I need to partition the drives and format them. The problem is the sytem doesn't recognize any of these drives; only my "C" drive. I thought that after installing "Adaptec EZ-SCSI" the sutem would recognize the drives as "D", "E", "F" and "G". It does recognize the CD drives .. "F" and "G". "D" and "E" are invalid drives.

I'm at wits end. Does anyone have any advice? By the way, each of the connectors is connected and each drive has power; that's not the problem.

[Floppyman]

Hi,

I'm assuming the SCSI hdd's are recognized by the controller fine. If no, double check your connections and ID settings. If yes, check your SCSI controller's bios first, most have an option in there to format the hdd.

[fulano]

Scsi is a headache. try booting in dos with floppy and fdisk to make dos partition. (I don't think windows recoginises format done by scsi tool)

[jgubjr]

Thank you Floppyman and fulano. The problem is that I've already tried both of your suggestions; as a matter of fact they're the first things I tried.

The SCSI BIOS does contain a Format utility. But it's Low Level; doesn't do me any good.

I did boot from DOS. Installed Adaptec's ES-SCSI and the system (on boot up) recognizes each of my SCSI devices. But it will only allow me to go to my CD drives. As mentioned above, ASPI CD installs but ASPIDISK does not because the system tells me I have no logical drives. I suspect maybe corrupted MBR's and that would be no sweat if they were IDE drives; unfortunately they're SCSI.

You have any idea if the full version of a utility like On Track can help me ?

And I repeat, both drives have power. Also the connectors are seated well, otherwise the drive ID's wouldn't be recognized on boot up ... and they are.

Please let me know if you have any other ideas. Thanks.