I’ve got a newly built PC with one hard drive, a SCSI one. The setup is:
- SCSI HD is the only SCSI device
- SCSI HD has “terminator power supply” pins shorted (enabling terminator power to be supplied)
- SCSI HD is ID 15, card is 7, and each takes up one end of the cable. Cable has one other connector, in between, which isn’t closed off or anything.
- The SCSI bios detects the HD fine and I’ve used its utility to do “preformatting” on the HD. It doesn’t appear to detect any errors.
So in short I can’t figure anything wrong with my SCSI setup.
Now, putting a fresh installation of Fedora on it, it complains the partition table on device sda was unreadable and asks me if I want to initialize the drive. I select yes–but it’s hanging right there. How long am I supposed to wait? It’s going on 30 minutes. I’ve done formatting that took eternities, but the drive’s only 36.7 GB so it can’t take that long.