LH Plus SCSI Floppy Situation

[Mykal Henson]

History: LH Plus w/P166 dual, 24GB DAT, HPDA Mylex960 w/four SCSI drives attached, NT4.0 SP6a, 64MB RAM - Archive Storage server on a LAN with four other servers doing the 'real' work.

Everything was working fine, the only intermittent problem was with the DAT - Seagate said to use a different ID other than 2.
We removed a Seagate SCSI 24GB DAT to change the ID from 2 to 6. When we rebooted the NT system hung at the Blue WinNT4.0 SP6a, 2 processors, and 64MB Memory configuration screen.
So, we did a quick 'put it back the way it was...' and nada. same thing.
So, we grabbed the ERD and did a Repair install from the boot disks - now it hangs at the "SCSI FLOPPY DISK... detection" and cannot get to the ERD or any new installation.

MS said to try and manually load SCSI device drivers - done. Still can't get past "SCSI FLOPPY DISK..."

We disabled the onboard Adaptec, same thing. MS has a Q157332 but this does not help. We have setup the system both ways and still nothing.

It totally was working two days ago...???

Any ideas? (we even wore the same clothes today that we wore the last time the system worked... no luck.)

Mykal

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Mykal,

Liked your sense of humor. Can you try one thing, you may have already tried this,

Strip to bare minimum. remove all attachemnets, remove the NIC, DAT Drives. Only keep you hard disks and the floppy drives connected. Remove all the addidtional items you might be having and try. If it boots okay, try putting the other devices one by one, attach one device and boot, if successful, attach another and so on. Also you can remove the floppy drive connection and try.

I think you might have already tried this, but anyway, good luck.

[Enes Dizdarevic]

If you are traying to do repair installation and have problems with device detection you can skip detection phase and manually select all devices.
If you boot from NT CD to start installation press F6 during first phase of boot (while on screen is message: ntdeteect is...). In this case NT install will not try to autodect any device. You will have to select everything (computer type, video, controllers, etc).