Re: SCSI Install Problems?

["John J. Donohue" <jdonohue mcallen lib tx us>]

On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Jeff Hogg wrote:

>   I've got a system, newly purchased, that contains 2 9gig SCSI drives.
> They came with just the command.com and io.sys etc.. of win98 installed on
> each.  When started up, the system boots to the C: prompt as they should.  I
> assumed that I could simply use the win98 fdisk to wipe these
> artitions( both whole disk primaries ) and then install RH 6.0.
> However, fdisk always exits with a failure to write to the disks.  The
> partitions are never removed..  Am I missing something here?  i attempted to
> put RH 6.0 on by simply running the install, but it also failed to truly
> write to the disks.  Anyone?
> 
Look in the CMOS settings on the machine for something (probably labeled as
virus protection) that keeps the master boot record and/or partition table
from being written to.