Re: Partitioning SCSI Drives on Dell 4400 & Server 2003 Ent.
From: Charles (vtcrusade_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 03/08/04
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Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 07:45:28 -0800
Good deal, I'm going to go in with renewed vigor today and
play with the RAID setup till I get this pig running!
Thank you for the help
Charles
>-----Original Message-----
>You'll need to enter controller bios to build the raid.
Consult your raid
>controller manual for the steps to enter bios. (I believe
it's <cntrl>H at
>POST for your perc3 controller)
>
>Once the raid configuration has been built boot the
Windows 2003 CD-Rom and
>*F6* very early and very important (at setup is
inspecting your system) in
>the setup to prevent drive controller detection, and
select S to specify
>additional drivers. Then later you'll be prompted to
insert the manufacturer
>supplied Windows 2003 driver for your raid controller in
drive "A"
>
>If you wait and then S to specify additional drivers,
then it may be too
>late as Windows 2003 Setup at this point may have already
assigned the
>resources your drive's controller is wanting to use.
>
>
>--
>Regards,
>
>Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in
newsgroup.
>Microsoft MVP [Windows]
>Microsoft Certified Professional [Windows 2000]
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>
>
>"Charles" wrote:
>| Well I'm officially insane now.
>|
>| Trying to install Server 2003 Enterprise Ed. On a Dell
>| 4400 PowerEdge Server. It has a PERC 3 RAID Controller
and
>| 4 72GIG Seagate Drives.
>|
>| When the install program starts I get the dreaded "Setup
>| did not find any hard disk drives installed on your
>| computer...blah blah blah"
>|
>| So I figure it has to be something to do the way the
>| drives are partitioned. This is going to be a clean
>| install so I don't care what happens to the current data
>| or partitions that are on those drives. I go in to the
>| SCSI management program and tell it to partition the
drive
>| with a primary partition, it freaks out that all data
will
>| be lost, no problem, but then it only allows me to
create
>| a partition with 2GIGs on it and calls it BIGDOS. Not a
>| good situation, but I figure I'll attempt a reinstall
>| again I get the no disk found error.
>|
>| Any ideas.
>|
>|
>|
>|
>
>
>.
>
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