Hi Bill.

First of all, I would like to thank you so much for all the time and effort
that you gave and advice that guide me thru the setup of my workstation.

Just finished what said and walk thru the FDISK, partitioning and format.
My SCSI drive is now the boot drive and CD-ROM, CD-R & HP scanner now
working except for the SCSI ZIP that is not functioning, just a lot of
clicking and will not read . I used the Iomega diagnostic tool and it said
" contact Iomega Corp. for support ". I think is a defective unit and to
return it.

All my SCSI and IDE logical drives are inWin98  Explorer. Copy all the
files from IDE boot drive to SCSI boot drive.my drive letters are :

SCSI   C : Bootdrive
          E:  logical
          F:  logical
          G:  logical
IDE- 1  D: Primary
           H: logical
           I:  logical
           J: logical
SCSI   CD-ROM :  K
SCSI   CD-R      :  L
IDE-2   DVD      :  M

I removed the 2nd IDE drive and install it my other computer, now I had to
learn how to burn CD from my  Plextor system.

More power to this LIST  and  " Happy Easter " to all.

Ding Marcelo

Thank you also to those who responded thru the LIST , Mary Wolden and Brad
Loomisfor all your inputs that makes my trouble shooting a lot easier.
Bill Cohane wrote:

> At 10:57 AM 4/17/2000, Ding Marcelo wrote:
> >I have to admit that this is a first time to tinkermy system. How do I
> >FDISK in WIN 98 DOS  Window to partition my ATLAS III 18 GB drive into
> >4 partition and format it ? How big is the active partition for the OS
> >and the 3 logical drives.
> >
> >           C: 3GB ?
> >           D: 5GB ?
> >           E: 5GB ?
> >           F: 5GB ?
> >Can you guide me step by step from boot up to Win98 DOS window.
>
> Hi Ding
>
> Click the "Start" button (bottom left of screen), choose "Run",
> then type in FDISK and hit <Enter>.
>
> When you see "Do you wish to enable large disk support?" choose
> "Yes" and hit <Enter>. It's important to answer "Yes"!
>
> You should now see the FDISK main menu. It is set automatically
> to go for your first hard drive. Note it says
> "Current fixed disk drive: 1".
>
> Choose "Change current fixed disk drive" from the menu by
> entering a "5" in the brackets below the five choices.
> You should see a list of your hard drives and their present
> partition status.
>
> You'll need to find your Atlas III in this list. After you do,
> type the number from the first column (1, 2, 3, etc.) for this
> drive into the brackets [] and hit enter.
>
> You now see the menu for creating partitions.
>
> Note the choice [2] "Set active partition"... You'll have
> to use this later to make the drive bootable.
>
> But now, enter choice [4] "Display partition information".
> You'll get a table displaying all the partitions on the drive. At
> this time, this should be empty. So go back to the previous
> menu by hitting the <Escape> key.
>
>  From the current disk drive menu, choose [1] "Create DOS
> partition or Logical DOS Drive" and hit <Enter>.
>
> Choose [1] "Create primary DOS Partition" and then go
> on from there. Pick the size you want and do it. (3 MB or
> 17% of 18 GB or whatever you want to do.) When it tells
> you that it is done, hit <Escape> and <Escape> until you
> are out of the program.
>
> Reboot. (This is important.)
>
> Your new drive should now be visible in My Computer...
> but you haven't formatted it yet so you can't read or write
> to it yet. Right click on the drive and choose Format with the
> "Add system files" option checked. Do the format.
>
> Reboot. (
>
> Run FDISK again and choose [5] to see the drive menu.
> Change to your SCSI drive. Choose [2] "Set active partition".
> Hit <Escape> and when you see the command prompt, reboot.
>
> Hopefully you'll boot to the SCSI drive. Let me know what happens!
>
> You can use FDISK again to create your extended partition and then
> the logical drives...later. You can use the BIOS "A, C, Ext" to get
> back to Win98.
>
> Regards,
> Bill
>
> >  My  ATLAS III 18 GB drive is LVD and using the Tekram supplied LVD
> > twisted cable & LVD terminator connected to the ULTRA 2 terminal .
> > It's a triple channel controller and running all the SCSI-2 devices
> > on the 50 pin Bus with active termination on both ends. and nothing
> > connected on the 68 pin UW SCSI terminal.
> >
> >regards,
> >
> >Ding

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