IDE HD's & ML350 G3 Server

[joerdg]

Hello,
Just purchased a ml350 g3 server, and wanted to use 2 Western digital 20GB hard drives (mirrored) as the c: drive. Compaq support says that the internal IDE controller will not support IDE hard drives (only the cd-rom). So I bought a pci IDE raid control and wanted to set it up that way. The data drive (d: drive) will be setup with three compaq 72.4GB SCSI drive using RAID5. The problem I am experiencing is that when the system boots I get the F1 to continue prompt, it then tries to boot off of the Win2k server cd. After I hit F1 to continue I get two short beeps and then a black screen (it never boots off the cd). Is it possible to use IDE hard drives in a proliant ml350 server. I have used the smart start cd and every time I use it I get the error 59 which says I need to delete the drives and start over. Have any of you tried to use IDE hard drives in a ml350 (or similar type)? This is my first experience with compaq servers as we have used HP netservers in the past. Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[TheLad]

What Compaq mean is that THEY do not support using IDE hard drives on the internal IDE controller - that doesn't mean it doesn't work of course. -----------------------------------------------------
"It's true, its damn true!"
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[joerdg]

Problem solved!! I had the jumpers on the hard drive's set to cable select. (duhh!) Once I corrected this error I was able to load windows 2000 server. When I had talked to compaq support they said specifically that the onboard ide controller does not support ide hard-drives. The guy was kind of rude and was a little short with me. Thanks for pointing out this could be done.