Dell OptiPlex Gxi - Manual (Page 92)

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12. If you installed a SCSI hard-disk drive, partition
and format the drive. Then install the operating
system.
See your operating system documentation for
instructions as well as the next subsection, “Parti-
tioning and Formatting SCSI Hard-Disk Drives.”
13. Test the SCSI devices.
Test a SCSI hard-disk drive by running the SCSI
Device(s) Test Group of the Dell diagnostics. See
your Diagnostics and Troubleshooting Guide for
information on running the diskette-based diagnos-
tics and troubleshooting any problems that may
occur.
To test a SCSI tape drive, refer to the documentation
for the tape drive software to perform a tape drive
backup and verification test.
Partitioning and Formatting SCSI
Hard-Disk Drives
You may need to use different programs than those pro-
vided with the operating system to partition and format
SCSI hard-disk drives. Refer to the documentation that
came with your SCSI software drivers for information on
installing the appropriate drivers and preparing your
SCSI hard-disk drive for use.
NOTE: On systems with hard-disk drives larger than
2 GB, create a primary partition of 2 GB and divide the
remaining capacity into partitions of 2 GB or less. For
example, a system with a 2.5-GB hard-disk drive would
have a primary partition of 2 GB (drive C) and a second
partition of 500 MB (drive D). Hard-disk drives must be
partitioned this way because MS-DOS–based operating
systems (including Windows NT when using a FAT16 file
system) do not support drive partitions larger than 2 GB.