Problem booting from 15k rpm SCSI

[coomarlin]

I'm putting a SCSI system together and am having a few problems. I've got a 73gb 15k rpm scsi drive that is U320. I've got an Adaptec 29320r scsi controller. I've hooked the drive up to the SCSI controller and the end of the cable is terminated. I'm using the end connector nearest the terminator. The drives scsi ID is set to 0.

I'm trying to install windows XP. My bios boot order is CDROM, SCSI. When I boot from the CD rom windows install starts and I press F6 and install the Adaptec XP drivers from the floppy disk. Then windows continues to boot and I get the option to install windows or repair. I choose install and I get a message saying windows could not find a hard disk to install to. I'm not sure what to do at this point. The adaptec bios finds the hard disk during the scan and properly shows it on ID 0. The drive is connected to the LVD connector on the controller. There is an option in the SCSI controllers bios that allows you to select which device to boot to and I've got ID 0 selected.

I've also tried disabling "boot other" in bios to no avail. I've also tried changing the boot order to CDROM, HD0.

Can anyone help me out here? Thanks.

 

[Markfw]

I had this problem with a Raid setup in 2000, and I had the wrong drivers installed (didn't tell me after I put the floppy in), so try to verify your Adaptec drivers first.

 

[bozo1]

Did you disable HostRaid support in the Adaptec BIOS? You need to if you are using a single drive.

 

[coomarlin]

Good call guys. I went to adaptec's website and downloaded the 1.1 drivers and it worked perfectly. The 1.0's came with the card. Thanks.

 

[coomarlin]

Darn. Now I have more problems. I create 1 large 73GB NTFS partition and then windows continues to load setup files. When the system reboots for the first time it verifies DMI pool data and the "netdetect failed" flashes really fast and then I get "A disk read error occured" . After manually rebooting a get "Error loading operating system".

WTF?

I booted from the CD and got to the repair consol. I tried recopying the ntldr and ntdetect.com files. I also tryed "fixboot" which didn't solve anything.

I have hostraid disabled in my scsi bios. My board bios for the Asus A7N8X deluxe is 1002 on board revision 2.0.

I'm getting pissed off

Anyone have any ideas?

 

[EddNog]

What SCSI ID is your RAID controller on? Try changing the ID of the drive. IT may be conflicting with the controller's default ID (same ID!) This may be it, it may not be it. If that doesn't work, I don't know then. Currently I'm using a Seagate Cheetah 15K.3 18GB version on an LSI Logic LSIU160 adapter and it works fine; Windows XP even has the driver natively integrated, so no floppy during Windows setup.

-Ed

 

[mechBgon]

Also, what motherboard is this? If it has an onboard IDE RAID controller or such, that's "SCSI" too, as far as the mobo is concerned. If it's trying to boot from the wrong "SCSI" controller, that might explain the symptoms too. Gimme a brand/model and I'll hunt for a solution, if that's the case. Disabling an IDE RAID controller completely would probably be easiest, but reversing the PCI bus-scanning order in the BIOS is a possibility too. Some boards also have a "SCSI means ...?" option so you can tell it whether you mean the onboard IDE RAID or a PCI-slot controller.

Also, did you set the SCSI card's BIOS to boot from the channel + drive ID that you gave to your drive? If not, maybe jump in there and tell it that. edit: oops, I see you did that already, nm.

 

[coomarlin]

Thanks for the info.

The drive in on SCSI ID 0 and the card is on SCSI ID 7 which is the default.

The board is an ASUS K7N8X Deluxe nforce2 board. It does have SATA raid (via silicon image chipset). I just looked at the manual and it does have a jumper to disable the silicon image chipset! I will definately have to try that. There is a SATA RAID bios screen that comes up directly after the Adaptec bios in the boot sequence. It scans the SATA raid controller for drives which obviously are not found.

For my boot sequence I have CDROM then SCSI.

Do you think that the computer is seeing the SATA controller as SCSI and when the machine boots up it is looking for a drive on it rather than the actual Adaptec card?

Unfortunately I can't work on the PC until tomorrow, but I'll be interested to see if this is a fix.