SCSI Problem, help plz !!

[Verwijderd]

Here's my prob:

I have an "old" compaq, 9,1Gb 7200 rpm disc, i had to put a convertor on it so i could use it with my other drives. Convertor SCA-68
80 pins --> to --> 68 pins. 40mb/s


The disc is detected in the boot sequence.
IDE-0 IBM SB737372 -HARD DISK 0-
IDE-1 COMPAC blabla -------------> HERES THE PROB
// more stuff, all assigned tho
IDE-7 PLEXTOR cdrom blabla
IDE-8 PLEXTOR burner blabla

No drive is assigned!!??, resulting in windows in a non-accesable drive. So no drive letter, no drive in windows-explorer.

In configuration->system->disk drives, he finds the compaq, but again no drive-letters assigned.

Can somebody please help me!

[mvdejong]

Well, sounds simple to me.
Drive-letters aren't assigned to physical drives.
Drive-letters are assigned to recognizable file-systems on physical drives.
So I assume your drive hasn't been partitioned with partitions suitable for your operating system.
You first will have to partition that drive and create file-systems in those partitions which are recognized by the operating system you are using. They are then assigned drive-letters and you can format them.
Recognized :
- WinNT won't recognize the FAT32 from Win98;
- Win98 won't recognize the NTFS from WinNT;
- no MS OS will recognize UNIX- or Novell-partitions.