AIT 35 LVD internal SCSI and SCSI controller drivers for W2K3 on Proliant ML370

[Vitaliy Kuchmagra]

Hi,

We are going to upgrade our five Proliants
ML370 from W2K to Windows 2003.

The current hardware configuration of the
servers is:
Proliant ML370 (BIOS version P17 12/18/02),
1 Ghz PIII, 1Gb RAM,
Integrated Dual Channel Wide Ultra2 SCSI
Controller, 2 x Compaq BD03664553 HD,

AIT 35 GB LVD SCSI Tape Drive.

We have been using the following SCSI
drivers under W2K without any problem :
1) CPQ32FS2.SYS (v. 5.12.20.0 of 8/15/20001)
for the SCSI controller
2) caitw2i.sys (v.1.0.0.1) for the tape drive


The tape drive is detected by W2K as "COMPAQSDX-400C SCSI Sequential Device"

When I first checked the server's
upgradability to W2K3 by "winnt32 /checkupgradeonly"
I was instructed to update HDD driver. So, I
downloaded the latest driver from COMPAQ
support site.
It was CPQ32FS2.SYS v.5.24.0.0 of 11/12/2002.
The driver won't work properly with the tape
drive!
After I installed it, my tape drive
disappeared from the system.

After rebooting the computer a strange window
pops up - "Unsafe Removal of device" and the
device reported is "COMPAQ SDX-400C SCSI
Sequential Device".

Then, I rolled everything back and deleted
the tape drive from the system prior to
CPQ32FS2.SYS setup.
But it did not help.

Moreover, a bunch of parity check errors
produced by CPQ32FS2.SYS appeared in the
system log.

So, I decided to find the latest driver for
the tape device, and downloaded SP24875.EXE
from the support site.
It won't work at all, neither with the old
CPQ32FS2.SYS (v. 5.12.20.0 of 8/15/20001),
nor with the new CPQ32FS2.SYS v.5.24.0.0 of
11/12/2002.

Then, I looked for cait2i.sys driver on the
COMPAQ Support Site, and what a strange
thing - I did not find ANY reference to it
anywhere! It seems to be very mysterious
thing.

I am really puzzled now.

What combination ofstorage drivers should I
use on my Proliants under W2K3?

Please help!