SCSI on the PC .. help needed

[AdMartin]

Assuming you use Windows, you don't need special software for that, only Windows drivers for the SCSI card. When Windows recognises the SCSI card you can partition and format drives the same way you would any plain IDE drives.

However, if you use Windows 98 or earlier, you'll need to install DOS drivers and use the Adaptec DOS partition utility, unless you partition the drive with a third-party application such as Partition Magic.

/Martin

[AdMartin]

As a couple of other guys said, simply use the MS-DOS partitioning utility fdisk, after installing ASPI8DOS.SYS in your config.sys. You have to be in real DOS mode to use fdisk, so restart your computer in DOS mode or press F8 during boot to get the start-up menu and choose DOS mode directly.

Oh, ASPI8DOS.SYS is a part of this package.

However, fdisk has its limitations with newer drives. I've never got a hard drive (IDE or SCSI) bigger than, say 17GB, to work properly with Win98 fdisk. How big is your drive and what brand is it? Some manufacturers offer partioning utilities as free downloads from their sites, but recently many have ceased to offer them as Win XP doesn't need them... :/

/Martin