Compaq SCSI question

[Jekyll77]

Hi guy's..

I just got myself a Compaq Proliant ML330 that I am building as a fileserver (Win 2003 server) I've got it up and running 2x 18gig SCSI drives mirrored with the OS.

The trouble I'm having is with my two IDE drives (both 120gig WD's) when they are connected to either of the two onboard IDE channels the system will not boot, It keeps attempting to boot form the IDE not the SCSI. I have spent a few hours on this and can not seem to find a fix.

Specs:

1CPU - PIII 1GIG
256 Meg ECC
1X Compaq SMART array 221 SCSI controler (In use)
1X Compaq Wide/Ultra2 SCSI controler (not in use)

Any ideas would be great.

Thanks.

 

[mechBgon]

I take it you've read the documentation and looked through the BIOS options for a way to give boot priority to the SCSI controller?

 

[Jekyll77]

Sure have.. Unless I have missed something.

 

[mastertech01]

Are the IDE drives bare? No operating system installed on them?

 

[Jekyll77]

IDE's have DATA on them, no OS.

 

[mechBgon]

If you happened to have a PCI ATA/100 card, you might be able to do a workaround by hosting the ATA drives on the PCI card.

Motherboards typically would boot from the disk controller they see first when they scan the PCI bus at boot-up. So if your Compaq's controller were a plug-in card, and your mobo still tried to boot from the PCI ATA card, you would move the cards so the mobo now sees the SCSI controller first.

If the Compaq's actual SCSI chip is soldered to the motherboard then it would be harder. Then you would hope for an option to reverse the PCI-bus scanning order so you could still make it do what you wanted.

Bigger picture: are you particularly attached to the 18GB SCSI array? Is this going to be doing anything mission-critical or is it a home media server or what? Because I've run WinServer2003EE with an Active Directory domain, RIS, SUS, and McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator on a Celeron 433 with an IDE drive and 392MB of RAM. Not exactly graceful at times, but it worked for test purposes

 

[Jekyll77]

No, not particularly attached to the 18GB SCSI array.. Just that I was given the server and wanted to 'play'. Nothing mission-critical, just home media.

I have been running a Dual PIII 733 as my server for the past few years and that in not in line to become a Fedora box.

 

[mechBgon]

If you happened to have a link to the documentation, I'll help nose through it looking for any ideas. I'm on 56k so it could take a while, though

Another thought: if there were some key combo that calls up a boot menu, like the F8 key for an Asus K8V Deluxe presents you with a list of all potential boot devices, then that would work... it's not like you'd need to reboot it often. I guess that would preclude controlling it strictly with Remote Desktop though.

 

[Jekyll77]

Not a bad idea..

I'll go find some more Doc's and see what I can do.

 

[Jekyll77]

Ok, I got the booting from IDE fixed (I think) Adjusted some IRQ's that seem'd to be conflicting. :roll:

Now I'm getting this:

1792: Secondary disk or controler failure, Check your bla bla bla.

Damn this is starting to annoy me. Everything on the second channel is right. I have even tried setting both IDE drives to Cable select with the same error.