https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk/hard-drive-a5726ax/m-p/2453668#M138 I recently buy a used Hitachi DKR1B-J47SC hard drive and there is nothing about this product on Hitachi web site, but... on the back of the drive there is a HP part number tag: A5726AX <BR /><BR />the question is: Can I use this hard drive for standard SCSI applications???<BR /><BR />when I connect the drive to my SCSI bus seems to be ok, but neither windows 2000, nor Linux can allocate partitions on it<BR /><BR />please some one help<BR /><BR />thanks<BR /><BR /><BR />FT1 Sat, 14 Oct 2000 09:06:33 GMT ft1 ft1 2000-10-14T09:06:33Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk/hard-drive-a5726ax/m-p/2453668#M138 I recently buy a used Hitachi DKR1B-J47SC hard drive and there is nothing about this product on Hitachi web site, but... on the back of the drive there is a HP part number tag: A5726AX <BR /><BR />the question is: Can I use this hard drive for standard SCSI applications???<BR /><BR />when I connect the drive to my SCSI bus seems to be ok, but neither windows 2000, nor Linux can allocate partitions on it<BR /><BR />please some one help<BR /><BR />thanks<BR /><BR /><BR />FT1 Sat, 14 Oct 2000 09:06:33 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk/hard-drive-a5726ax/m-p/2453668#M138 ft1 ft1 2000-10-14T09:06:33Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk/hard-drive-a5726ax/m-p/2453669#M139 Sorry, that A5726AX / Hatachi DKR1B-J47SC hard drive is from an XP-256 disk array and is probably not formatted for use in anything else. It probably doesn't have firmware that will allow it to be formatted any other way either. <BR /><BR /> Thu, 19 Oct 2000 11:00:16 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk/hard-drive-a5726ax/m-p/2453669#M139 Bob Inglis 2000-10-19T11:00:16Z