Make sure the ASPI Manager that came with your SCSI card is installed in your CONFIG.SYS. After the line for your ASPI Manager should be the SAIASPI.SYS driver.
The ASPI Manager is a driver that comes with your SCSI card. If you are using Windows 95 and you have no ASPI manager that can be installed through the CONFIG.SYS then it may be better to uninstall our software and use Windows 95 "Install New Hardware" feature. This works in a lot of cases. You may have to contact the manufacturer of the SCSI card and ask for a copy of the ASPI Manager for your card.
It takes between 5 to 10 minutes per 100 megabytes (mostly depends on the speed of the drive) - a 650MB cartridge will take between a half to to one hour (or so) to format it. Of course you really seldom need to format a disk. Just "Installing" a partition on it is usually enough to make it ready for use. Most disks come pre-low level formatted from the factory and don't need to be re-low level formatted the second you take it out of the box.
This means to Reserve one drive letter at startup. If you regularly partition cartridges with more than one partition than it can be useful to have the driver always reserve two (or more) drive letters for the drive at startup.
1K and 2K media refers to the physical block size of the media. The logical block size refers to the size of the layout written to the media once the media has been formatted and partitioned. The Microsoft operating systems have very specialized needs with regard to the logical blocksize.
Standard Windows 3.x O/S will only handle 512 b/s logical block size and Windows 95 will only handle media where the logical block size equals the physical block size.
Since Windows 95 formats the 1024 byte media according to its physical block size, Win 3.x cannot recognize the partition map since it is not written with 512 byte logical block addressing.
Last updated 3/1/97