No software of any sort can truly low-level format today's modern drives. The ability to low-level format hard drives was lost back in the early 1990's when disc surfaces began incorporating factory written "embedded servo data". If you have a very old drive that can truly be low-level reformatted, SpinRite v5.0 will do that for you (which all v6.0 owners are welcome to download and run anytime).

Yes. To accomplish this, you must set up the EIDE drive as the first drive on the system, and the SCSI as the second. If you intend to replace the EIDE drive with the SCSI drive, you must remove the EIDE drive from the system after you have performed the copy operation. DriveCopy does not require that the target hard drive be set as the master and the source hard drive be set as slave.

A12. Usually, yes. EIDE CD-ROM drives are often misunderstood. Some articles and technical documents may refer to EIDE as the Attached AT Peripheral Interface (ATAPI). First, the typical EIDE CD-ROM drive operates entirely through a software driver in CONFIG.SYS, bypassing the system BIOS completely. So a BIOS upgrade is not required to support an EIDE CD-ROM drive.

Scsi emulation is preferred, since it enables cdda2wav to use more commands and is often the only way to get special information like track titles with cd-text. The emulation module is called ide-scsi, the eide module is called ide-cd.

EIDE, SCSI, or Serial ATA (SATA) drive is not recognized during the installation of Windows NT/2000/XP. The installer reports that there is no drive present for the Windows installation, even though the controller recognizes the drive. The drive may not be detected during the installation of Windows because you have not yet loaded the drivers for your EIDE, SCSI, or SATA controller.

Only on previously used hard disk drives. The desired backup drive must not have any partitions present.

Disclaimer: A LLF will destroy all information on a hard drive and effectively render it in the same condition that it arrived from the manufacturer... blank with nothing on it. If you are not familiar with DOS and drive channels seek professional assistance from your local computer technician. Use these procedures and software at your own risk. Boot the computer into DOS mode or use a 98 boot disk. Use your favorite Low-Level Format utility to erase the first few sectors of the hard drive.

During the creation of A1, after 'gathering additional device files', I get the following error message: Using AIR-BAG diskettes to restore my system or restore to another system, the following error occurs after hitting return at the Boot: on the first diskette. When I create my AIR-BAG diskettes, the creation hangs when creating the A2 in the middle putting the files on the diskette.

The primary difference is that SCSI (Small Computer System Interface) has a processor built into the drive which allows for faster read / writes. The EIDE (Enhanced IDE) drives rely on the CPU. SCSI is the recommended option if you are planning to run a database. EIDE is suitable for standard web serving.

Yes, if the source disk is bootable on multiple machines, then it's DPSR drive is bootable on the same machines. Windows usually locks it's installation to the system it was originally installed on, so moving an installation to a different machine usually results in Windows not booting correctly. We believe this to be an excellent way to quickly and easily carry your "work" back and forth from the office to the home.

If the IDE drive you plan to install into a 2163 Enclosure is already formatted for your operating system, you will not need to format the drive before you install it. You can simply install the drive and begin using it right away. (Follow the instructions in the User's Guide.) If your IDE drive is NOT formatted, follow the insructions in the User's Guide to properly install the drive and then format it.

The primary difference is that SCSI (Small Computer System Interface) has a processor built into the drive which allows for faster read / writes. IDE drives rely on the CPU. SCSI may be beneficial to you if you are planning to run a database or other resource intensive application. An IDE drive is suitable for standard web serving. RAID Level 5 provides you with the redundancy necessary to recover from a single hard drive failure.

One possibility is DMA compatibility. If your memory card is not DMA compatible, then switch 1 on the Apple HS SCSI card should be open (up). Another possibility I guess is a SCSI ID conflict. The Apple HS SCSI card's ID at the factory is set to 7. Here are the Apple HS SCSI card switch combinations: Third, the scsi chain needs termination power to work properly. This is different from termination. Both are required for a properly functioning scsi chain.

its maximum depth of operation, performing a complete read/write/read/write for data recovery and surface analysis/verification, SpinRite can obtain extremely high speeds of up to 2 gigabytes per minute, or 120 gigabytes per hour. However, that is SpinRite's maximum speed and many things can cause it to run slower and, in some cases, much slower . . .

For someone to who doesn't need a real multi-tasking workstation or server, the only reason for paying the extra money for SCSI is flexibility. EIDE/ATA is strictly for "inside the case" peripherals. SCSI allows you to attach a large collection of add-ons like scanners, CD recorders, tape drives (or even devices not conceived of yet), either inside or outside the CPU case in whatever manner suits your needs or wishes.

Again, the answer depends on the application. SCSI is an intelligent interface that can perform data transfers with no intervention from the host CPU. SCSI is multi-tasking. An initiator can issue a command to a target. The target can then disconnect from the bus to perform the task and free the bus up for another task.

Check question number 6 about startup disks; most people need these because of hard disk problems. Apple provides an "erase disk" option on their main menu which will re-initialize some but not all hard drives. Apple also has a "disk test" utility to test formatted disks. There is also a popular control panel add on for "SCSI probe" which is helpful, check various Mac shareware sites for it.

Please spare us all the aggravation of the week long tirade that will result from asking this seemingly innocent question!

Currently Honeywall works on IDE drives only. You can configure IDE drive from Advanced Virtual Disk options in VMware. Future version of Honeywall CDROm should support SCSI. Normally, you get an allocation resource error when VMware is not able to properly communicate with the host devices. The error can be ignored, as it doesn't stop Honeywall from booting.

Most external drives you purchase are formatted for PCs. If you are only going to use it with your Mac then you should reformat the drive by using "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)". If you are gong to use it with your Mac and a PC then use "MS-DOS file system" format. To format or reformat a drive you will have to erase it. So before you erase the drive, copy your files to another drive.

The IDEDOS created for the IDE64 interface, is similar to DOS for the 1541 floppy drive. Except this, you can create subdirectories without number or capacity restrictions (only capacity of the harddrive is the limit).

You have to press the Del button to go in the BIOS and then go to BIOS FEATURES SETUP to adjust the Boot sequence to SCSI, and also you have to go into SCSI BIOS to adjust the CD-ROM Boot function to "Enable" mode. - Go to Top

If you have your files on an old Mac with a SCSI drive internal or external; and your new Mac does not have a SCSI external connector or use SCSI drives internally, what can you do? I'll discuss many options. My GENERAL advice is as follows. EITHER use some kind of Mac which HAS SCSI to read your drive, and use it to transfer files either by connection or by transfer to another media (floppy, CD, ZIP disk). OR, you add some kind of SCSI hardware to your new Mac to read the drive.

No Officially, the word from Dell is "no", and further investigation reveals that the 400SC uses the ICH5 (82810EB) southbridge, as shown in this picture. The Intel data sheet confirms that RAID support is only available on the ICH5R (82810ER) chipsets. Additionally, the BIOS only shows the option to enable/disable SATA, no RAID configuration. Also, Intel's Application Accelerator is not supported by the 400SC's chipset. It has become a RAID only utility.

The main issue is which device will be used for booting the system. Under MSDOS, The system BIOS determined this completely. A couple third party BIOSes (like MRBIOS) allowed the user to choose the boot source, but most conventional BIOSes just booted from the IDE if it was present. If no IDE was present then the standard option card BIOS scan would find the SCSI card's BIOS and use it to boot. Under Windows 95 and Windows NT, there are more options.

All sizes of EIDE compatible drives are supported, however only the first 137gb of each drive are addressable.