Thank you, James. The eventual solution for me was to
separate the drives onto the two IDE channels, and remove
the DVD reader entirely. Then I added another EIDE
controller for the DVD. Now all works well.
>-----Original Message-----
>When you installed SBS2K initially, if you did not
select
>the IDE drivers, then you will have to add them now.
This
>is common when someone sets up a Server with SCSI
drives.
>NT/2000 server products don't load the ATAPI/IDE drivers
>automatically.
>
>Also, I have seen in some instances where if the Primary
>IDE channel has no devices, that a device on the
Secondary
>IDE channel will not be accessible. Try putting the
drive
>on the Primary channel. This happens with certain
>motherboards.
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Since I can't mount the drive on this machine, I think
>>you are suggesting that I format the drive on another.
>>Is that what you mean?
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>I think you should mount anf format in dos or at least
>>do
>>>a dummy install of 2k and use its program to do it,
i'm
>>>probably wrong haven't much experience with raid so...
>>>
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>3rd post: SBS2K with OS on SCSI RAID5 array. Have
>>added
>>>>EIDE disk on secondary master. It shows in BIOS,
shows
>>>>in Device Manager, but NOT in Disk Management.
>>>>Therefore, I can't mount and format it. Could
someone
>>>>take a stab at this?
>>>>.
>>>>
>>>.
>>>
>>.
>>
>.
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