Greetings... I've had to format my

[dompros]

Greetings...
I've had to format my Seagate 18 gig SCSI HD.

I have 2 ways to reinstall the operating system, either with the SCSI utility that came with the SCSI adapter card or with, bootdisk, fdisk.
Regardless which utility that I use, the HD always partitons to an 8 gig primary partiton.
I've lost 10 gigs...

How do I partition the HD to use the full drive?


Regards, Robert


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[wolluf]

Sounds like the 8GB bios limit (on older mobos) - but i thought that only applied to IDE drives (I've very little SCSI experience, so don't actually know).

 

[edfair]

It has partitioned to use as much as it can on one partition. Use fdisk to create an extended partition and let it create 2 additional logical drives.
You'll end up with 8+8+2 roughly.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[dompros]

HMmmm...
it's a 10,000 rpm, high speed drive.

It came from the factory with a lowlevel format, and operated, win 98, with the full 18 gigs in one partiton... with one drive letter, C, until I formatted it...

Regards...

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[edfair]

There are software packages that do a disk drive overlay which jigger the CHS values to make large drives accessible. I suspect that you had one installed and the format wiped it out.
You might look at the Seagate site for DDO software to go with the drive.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[dompros]

OK, I'll check with Seagate, Thanks...

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