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Dave (from the UK)
I've ordered a 300 GB SATA drive, but for now are testing a new homebuilt PC
with an old 36 GB IBM SCSI drive (Ultra 160) that I pulled from a PC that run XP
Professional.
The newly built PC has
Tyan Thunder K8WE (S2895) motherboard with Ultra 320 SCSI onboard.
http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk8we_spec.html
2 x 512 MB of ECC registered RAM
1 x Opteron 248
IBM 36 GB Ultra SCSI 160 disk.
IDE based DVD writer.
Floppy
The SCSI disk, with XP on it, was pulled from a Pentium II PC which has SCSI on
board (based on an Adaptec controller).
If I switch the newly built PC on, Windows XP tries to boot from the SCSI hard
disk but does not fully succeed. Trying "safe mode" shows it fails when loading
something like "agp.sys". Given this motherboard has no AGP, perhaps this is not
surprising.
This Tyan dual Opteron motherboard is quite different from the old dual Pentium
II PC the SCSI disk came from.
If I then insert the XP installation CD, which is not an OEM one, 'setup' runs,
but says it can't find any hard disks. This seems odd, since there is obviously
a hard disk present - the machine will boot from the hard disk if the XP CD is
not present in the drive.
This is the details of the SCSI controller from the motherboard specs
Integrated SCSI Controller (option)
• LSI 53C1030 U320 SCSI controller
- Two U320 68-pin SCSI connectors
- Connected to PCI-X Bridge B
I've not tried loading any SCSI drivers in the setup program, but given the
machine will at least try to boot from the hard disk it indicates to me they are
probably not needed.
Although this machine will run Solaris and so not Windows, I want to be able to
boot Windows as many utilities to upgrade things like DVD drives, check disks
etc need Windows. So I want to keep a minimal Windows installation on the machine.
--
Dave K MCSE.
MCSE = Minefield Consultant and Solitaire Expert.
Please note my email address changes periodically to avoid spam.
It is always of the form: month-year@domain. Hitting reply will work
for a couple of months only. Later set it manually.
with an old 36 GB IBM SCSI drive (Ultra 160) that I pulled from a PC that run XP
Professional.
The newly built PC has
Tyan Thunder K8WE (S2895) motherboard with Ultra 320 SCSI onboard.
http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk8we_spec.html
2 x 512 MB of ECC registered RAM
1 x Opteron 248
IBM 36 GB Ultra SCSI 160 disk.
IDE based DVD writer.
Floppy
The SCSI disk, with XP on it, was pulled from a Pentium II PC which has SCSI on
board (based on an Adaptec controller).
If I switch the newly built PC on, Windows XP tries to boot from the SCSI hard
disk but does not fully succeed. Trying "safe mode" shows it fails when loading
something like "agp.sys". Given this motherboard has no AGP, perhaps this is not
surprising.
This Tyan dual Opteron motherboard is quite different from the old dual Pentium
II PC the SCSI disk came from.
If I then insert the XP installation CD, which is not an OEM one, 'setup' runs,
but says it can't find any hard disks. This seems odd, since there is obviously
a hard disk present - the machine will boot from the hard disk if the XP CD is
not present in the drive.
This is the details of the SCSI controller from the motherboard specs
Integrated SCSI Controller (option)
• LSI 53C1030 U320 SCSI controller
- Two U320 68-pin SCSI connectors
- Connected to PCI-X Bridge B
I've not tried loading any SCSI drivers in the setup program, but given the
machine will at least try to boot from the hard disk it indicates to me they are
probably not needed.
Although this machine will run Solaris and so not Windows, I want to be able to
boot Windows as many utilities to upgrade things like DVD drives, check disks
etc need Windows. So I want to keep a minimal Windows installation on the machine.
--
Dave K MCSE.
MCSE = Minefield Consultant and Solitaire Expert.
Please note my email address changes periodically to avoid spam.
It is always of the form: month-year@domain. Hitting reply will work
for a couple of months only. Later set it manually.