LD Pro.... IDE....Booting?

[Mark Hill_4]

Does anyone know how I can get this box to boot from an IDE drive?

TIA

[Greg Carlson]

There isn't an IDE controller in that server and there was never any IDE support for that server. You would have to add a PCI or EISA card and configure it in the ECU for the LD Pro. You can grab the ECU (Eisa Config Utility) here and flash your BIOS while your at it.

http://www.hp.com/cposupport/swindexes/nsldp_swen.html

Ciao,
Greg

[Mark Hill_4]

THanks for the reply, why then is the drive picked up in the bios by the autodetect? I can see the drive and fdisk and format it also. But I cannot get NT4 server install to see the drive to install to it.

Any ideas?

[Greg Carlson]

Mark,

I'm not exactly where you are having the problem with the install so here is the steps for a manual (suggested) install. Create the 3 diskettes from the NT 4.0 server using the switch winnt32 /ox command. Once you have your three bootable diskettes create the drivers diskettes for NT4.0 for the LDPRO http://www.hp.com/cposupport/swindexes/nsldp_swen.html (should be two diskettes)

Then boot to the first of three Server diskettes, continue to the second diskette and at the end of that diskette NT wants to auto-detect Mass Storage. Press "S" to Skip (if you press "Enter" you load NT 4.0 Drivers and fail to find the hdd's) Press "S" again to Specify additional drivers. Then hit enter on other and load the NetRaid driver or AIC78xx.sys driver depending on whether you are connected to a NetRaid or the embedded controller. (Load your bootable driver first)

Then you can continue onto the third diskette and continue loading NT. That should resolve it for you.

The second of two driver diskettes from HP for NT4.0 is the NIC driver. Use that later.

Hope that helps,
Greg

[Greg Carlson]

Brief follow up... If the netserver you were installing NT4.0 on had an IDE CD-ROM you would need to install the ATAPI IDE CDROM driver from the hidden list (hitting the UP arrow instead of hitting "Enter" on Other drivers menu after hitting "S" to Specify additional drivers. Otherwise NT won't find your CD-ROM.

[Mark Hill_4]

Setup still cannot find the partition!
Bugger

any other ideas?

I can do a sys C: and then boot into win98 using the ide, but when installing nt4 it cant see the drive?!?!?

[Greg Carlson]

Mark,

What is your config? Controller, hdd's??

[Mark Hill_4]

LD Pro, single 200mhz, 256mb, NetRaid, 3x18.2gb UWSCSI-2LDV's, Surestore DAT8, Sony SCSI CD-ROM. Thats the lot.

[Mark Hill_4]

Oh and the 3.2gb ide drive. the one i am trying to boot from, i cant boot from the scsi drives either. anything thats works will do!!

TIA

[Mark Hill_4]

And I have also updated the bios and firmware on the motherboard and netraid card to the latest..

[Greg Carlson · Accepted solution]

what do you have cabled to the SCSI A,B connections? Where are your SCSI hdd's? Is the drive cage cabled to the NetRaid? Have you configured an array in Ctrl-M?

Since you are having problems installing strip that server to base config. Only have the SCSI cd-rom cabled to SCSI A, Leave DAT uncabled. Remove that IDE drive altogether. Have three 18.2 gb hdds set up as a RAID 5 in ctrl-M and install to that. Do you have any logical drives configured on your NetRaid controller and have you initialized your array for a fresh install?

[Mark Hill_4]

Right I dont know how I did it, but its running NT4 server on the scsi disks now!

Thank you very much for the help!!!

You are a legend!

L8r!

[Greg Carlson]

I'm glad to hear your up and running. Cheers!