From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Apr 4 09:00:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA10295 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 4 Apr 1996 09:00:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (rocky.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA10243 for ; Thu, 4 Apr 1996 08:59:59 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id JAA16747; Thu, 4 Apr 1996 09:58:40 -0700 Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 09:58:40 -0700 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199604041658.JAA16747@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: "Brett Glass" Cc: Nate Williams , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fdisk questions? In-Reply-To: <9603038285.AA828591260@ccgate.infoworld.com> References: <9603038285.AA828591260@ccgate.infoworld.com> Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Does anyone have a clue on why this isn't working? Is there some magic > > incantation I must do to get this to work. > > Check the BIOS for an innocuous-looking setting called "virus protection." > If this fails, do a low-level format (assuming it's a SCSI disk). No virus protection settings to be found, and the reason it doesn't work now is because it had a high-level format done to it and then Win95 installed. I suspect Win95 did something to the disk, although I don't know what. Nate