Atapi-driver thinks firmware is out of date?

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2 total messages Started by Lars Christiansen Thu, 13 May 1999 00:00

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Author: Lars Christiansen
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 00:00

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Heya

I have a huge problem, and I hope some of you guys can help.
I run win98 and windows NT Server 4.0 in a dual-boot system on a P233mmx
with 128 sd-ram(intel 430 tx chipset).
Last day i bought an IBM 16GP Deskstar with 7200 rpm, but now I suddenly
realised, after atempting to install NT Server five times, that the eventlog
was bitching about an atapi-driver. I cannot format my drives completely,
but can only choose "Quick format" on the drives, and when I attempt to
format the partitions completely, the task cannot be completed Windows says.
The Error-message i get in the evenwiever is like this:

"The driver has detected that device \Device\ScsiPort0 has old or
out-of-date firmware. Reduced performance may result."

I don't believe that my brand new Harddisk has an old firmware or something
like that, but I really don't trust the "Quick formats" - Can I trust them,
or should I just format from eg. Partition Magic?
- Or is there a solution to my problem with the atapi-driver? Can it be
replaced, or do I have to live with an insecure filesystem?

By the way - I'm running with SP3...
Does SP5 fix this problem?

Any help would be much appreciated and feel free to write me personally if
you have a solution.

Regards,

Lars Christiansen
Aalborg, Denmark

Re: Atapi-driver thinks firmware is out of date?

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Author: Marv Lance
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 00:00

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Lars Christiansen wrote:

> Heya
>
> I have a huge problem, and I hope some of you guys can help.
> I run win98 and windows NT Server 4.0 in a dual-boot system on a P233mmx
> with 128 sd-ram(intel 430 tx chipset).
> Last day i bought an IBM 16GP Deskstar with 7200 rpm, but now I suddenly
> realised, after atempting to install NT Server five times, that the eventlog
> was bitching about an atapi-driver. I cannot format my drives completely,
> but can only choose "Quick format" on the drives, and when I attempt to
> format the partitions completely, the task cannot be completed Windows says.
> The Error-message i get in the evenwiever is like this:
>
> "The driver has detected that device \Device\ScsiPort0 has old or
> out-of-date firmware. Reduced performance may result."
>
> I don't believe that my brand new Harddisk has an old firmware or something
> like that, but I really don't trust the "Quick formats" - Can I trust them,
> or should I just format from eg. Partition Magic?
> - Or is there a solution to my problem with the atapi-driver? Can it be
> replaced, or do I have to live with an insecure filesystem?
>
> By the way - I'm running with SP3...
> Does SP5 fix this problem?
>
> Any help would be much appreciated and feel free to write me personally if
> you have a solution.
>
> Regards,
>
> Lars Christiansen
> Aalborg, Denmark

Hi,

I believe you need the updated atapi driver to handle large disks.  It should be
available on the MS web site.


--
Regards,
Marv Lance
X.mlance@att.X.net
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