re help adding a scsi drive in article apr oracle us oracle com ebosco us oracle com eric bosco writes i have a sx computer with a mg seagate ide drive and a controler built into the motherboard i want to add a scsi drive a quantum prodrive f mg formatted i have no documentation at all and i need your help as i understand it here is the process of adding such a drive could you please tell me if i m right buy a scsi contoler which one i know adaptec is good but they are kind of expensive are there any good boards in the region i want it to be compatible with os and unix if possible also i have seen on the net that there are scsi and scsi drives is this true does the adapter need to be the same as the drive what type of drive is the quantum i have tried others but i think that the adaptec is best value for money connect the drive to the adapter via a scsi cable and the power cable do i have to worry about the power supply i think i have watts and all i m powering are two floppies and the seagate drive i dont think you can mix the two types of drive unless you have one of the scsi ide cards that is available you will have to turn your ide off setup the bios to recognize the drive as the second drive what type of drive is this i don t have the numbers for this drive instructions for drive type are included with the controller with some it may be a type no matter what the disk is with others it may be a type i had one controller that i had to tell the bios that no hard disk was installed format and create partitions on the drive do i use format or fdisk i think that ide drives can t be low level formatted is it the same with scsi how exactly does fdisk work i have a reduced msdos manual clone obliges and there is no mention of fdisk ideally i would want the drive partitioned in to two partitions d and e how do i do this do not low level format a scsi unless you have the scsi low level format program first use fdisk to set the partitions then use format well that seems to be all is there anythiing i m forgetting any help is really appreciated i m lost eric ebosco us oracle com mark mark uk ac ox physchem
