Win2k SCSI boot drive setup

[volrath]

I did a Win2k install and hit F6 and loaded drivers for the AIC-7890a SCSI card. The drive on it was detected, I formatted it NTFS (ugh no quick format!) and installed windows. It all installed, rebooted to finish installing, then rebooted again. During the boot process, it does the black and white loading screen and completes, get to the blue white and gray screen, then says

STOP: 0X0000007B (0xEB81B84C,0xC0000034,0x00000000,0x00000000) INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE

So I guess my SCSI drivers weren't installed? Or what? What do I do? =P

 

[mechBgon]

Maybe the drive is flaky. How old is this stuff? Specs?

 

[volrath]

It is a seagate sx150176lc, which appears to be a 7200rpm, 50gb scsi-2 drive?

in the host adapter menu, selecting "verify disk media" was resulting in a no host adapter error, but now it is working and will verify.. if i give it an hour. the funny thing is when i tried the same thing with an adapter and some drives someone gave to me, I got the same error. I'll check what it is now.

 

[volrath]

also worth noting is that the drive fails to initialize when reset, but works from a cold start.

 

[mechBgon]

Sounds like flaky hardware to me. Can I suggest using a drive and card manufactured during this millenium as your system's boot combo

 

[volrath]

hey man, customer's computer, not mine