# Fresh SCSI HD hanging on Fedora installation **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 4, 2007, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fresh-scsi-hd-hanging-on-fedora-installation/394559 "2007-03-04T18:48:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dre2xl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/34f0e0/32.png) [@dre2xl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dre2xl)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fresh-scsi-hd-hanging-on-fedora-installation/394559/1 "2007-03-04T18:48:39Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![dre2xl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/34f0e0/32.png) [@dre2xl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dre2xl)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fresh-scsi-hd-hanging-on-fedora-installation/394559/2 "2007-03-04T19:41:09Z")
moderators, can you delete this thread please? There are personal reasons. I would like to post this thread in a forum where I am known by my real identity and cannot until this is deleted.