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How long does it usually take to format a SCSI drive?
I have a new 36GB drive on a 9600. The SCSI-2 bus is only 10mb/s so it's pretty slow. Usually when I format drives I never select low level format or zero all data. I save that only for when I have a problematic drive. For this new 36GB drive I didn't select any of that since I wanted a quick format, but it's been stuck on "installing device driver" for about 45 minutes now. Is that normal? Formatting a SATA drive takes like 5 seconds usually.
what OS? i use drive setup in 9.22 to set up all my drives. and its instant. set the partitions... then initialize and bam...
I'm using OS8.6. I had a feeling it was the size of the drive combined with the slow SCSI-2 bus. It's been stuck on "installing device driver" ever since I posted this. I almost want to turn the 9600 off and start over but that may be wasted time. The cursor is still moving and it has that spinning circle thing but I can't select windows or anything. The spinning circle will also blink every 15 seconds or so.
Well, my drives are 73gig, and they seem to init instantly, The machine I format them with is a PM 7500, (100mhz) with a (333mhz new technologies G3 cpu card in there )
SCSI drives, right? Not SATA or IDE with an adapter? My SATA drives are pretty much instant. SCSI seems to take longer though.
SCSI Voodoo. Got it now. It initialized instantly.
yup, 10k scsi, yup sound like you had some ID/Termination issue there 