User Manual

Adaptec SCSI Card 29160N User’s Reference

Using the Adaptec SCSI

Card 29160N and SCSI

Devices

This section provides useful information on using the Adaptec SCSI

Card 29160N and your SCSI devices. For specific information, refer

to the SCSI device documentation.

Using SCSI Devices

SCSI Hard Disk Drives

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Every SCSI hard disk drive must be physically low-level for-

matted, partitioned, and logically formatted before it can be

used to store data. If your SCSI hard disk drive has not already

been formatted at the factory, and if your system is running

under DOS, Windows 3.x, or Windows 95/98, you can format

the disk with the DOS

Fdisk

and

Format

commands. (See the

DOS and Windows documentation for more information.) To

format SCSI hard disk drives running under other operating

systems, see the operating system documentation.

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If your PC boots from a SCSI hard disk drive, ensure that the

Hard Disk (or Drives) setting in your computer’s CMOS setup

program is set to

None

No Drives Installed

, as is required

for SCSI hard disk drives. See your computer documentation

for details.

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If both SCSI and non-SCSI disk drives are installed, then the

non-SCSI disk drive is typically the boot drive. If your com-

puter supports BBS (BIOS Boot Specification), both SCSI and

non-SCSI disk drives can coexist and you can specify which

drive to boot from. Refer to your computer documentation for

more information.