scsi boot disk

johnnyboy32

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I have just purchased a Gigabyte GA-7A8DW, Adaptec (IBM) U320 SCSI Controller 2 adapter and a Hitachi 73 Gb 10000rpm U320 drive. I also have a 200Gb spinpoint IDE drive. I have loaded XP SP2 onto the IDE and loaded the SCSI drivers from the supplied cd and the scsi is recognised no problem - I can copy to and from it. When I try to load windows onto the scsi, however, setup comes up with the error- "setup could not find any mass storage devices". I have made the floppy from the cd, I press F6 when prompted, and the drivers appear to be loaded into the computer, only for the above message to appear. Anyone have any ideas?
Also, my previous set up had two 80Gb SATA drives in RAID 0. My last motherboard went bang. Can I set up the same array on my new mobo to get access to the files that are on the drives? I am wary of connecting them up incase I format them by mistake.
 
I have a feeling scsi is a bit funny if there is an ide hard drve, having said that to get Windows on mine I had to unplug the smart card reader, had the same error.

I'd install the O/S into the scsi disk then install the ide drive after.
 
The problem is that when i am trying to load onto the scsi, I physically disconnect the IDE drive, so the only drives I have are the scsi adapter and hard disk and the IDE dvd drive.
 
derbyjake said:
u need to press f6 n load up ** scsi drivers
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he's said that in his post. not sure really havent dealt with scsi myself at a guess you have got the right driver/boot disk for the scsi card?
 
Are the IDs set right. The driver may require you to have the controller and disks set to specific IDs for the initial install. However they're probably set to auto and should be fine.

100% sure the driver your installing is for the OS your running.

If the array is working and you have another disk bootable you could just clone that disk onto the array, once that's booting format the IDE disk and use it for storage.
 
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