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detecting scsi hard drive 2000 server

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by crosspower

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installed new fujitsu (man3184mp) scsi hard drive. It detects it in DOS but not under windows 2000 advanced server.

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by timwalsh

You need to be a lttle bit more specific. I'm going to assume that you mean that the drive is detected by the BIOS during startup, but you can't see the drive either from My Computer or from Windows Explorer. If this isn't the case, what do you really mean.

The problem is that My Computer or Windows Explorer will not be able to "see" the drive until it has been partitioned and formatted. To do this you need to go to Start Menu | Programs | Administrative Tools | Computer Management | Storage | Disk Management. From there, you must partition the drive first (however you desire), and then format it.

by j.a.lawrence

Check your SCSI card driver in Cntrl Panel/System/Device Manager/SCSI&RAID controllers.

You have to have the driver of the SCSI card loaded & configured in order to access a SCSI device.
Adaptec Controllers typically hit you with a Cntrl-A hotkey combination prompt on startup as well. In here, you need to configure the LUN (Logical Unit Number) of the drive (the drive's LUN is detemined by jumber config) as well.

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