NT on SCSI - Problems Installing

[rsci]

I have searched the forum and found no help so as a last resort I am posting. We are in the process of rebuilding several of our servers.
Boot is fine, all devices are detected. (2 x Adaptec AIC 7870 controlling: 2x 2gig hard drives, 1 cd rom, 2 tape drives). However I cannot get the drive letters assigned by the scsi controllers to be recognized. I have tried a win98 boot disk (with and w/o cd support), a backpack drive. (When I try from the backpack winnt gives the error that it cannot find a valid drive to install to.)
You could say I am scsi impaired and in need of severe help.
Thanks in advance for all suggestions.

rsci

 

[gentleman]

Check to see if the SCSI BIOS is enabled; should be a menu selection after the CTL-A. If it is not enabled NT won't see it.

 

[rsci]

I don't see anything that says specifically "SCSI Enabled" but it will give the response, "scsi bios installed". Is this the same thing?

 

[beet]

winnt sometime has tough time recognizing some scsi adapters
look for the atapi driver during the setup that is ide-based, try the s key and choose the atapi 1.2 driver. upgrade might be in order. you may have to replace it with a hcl recommendation.

 

[CitrixEngineer]

When you install NT, press F6 just before the blue setup screen appears.

Load the SCSI driver at this point - the most up to date driver you can get - and this should solve it.

I can confirm that this works on DELL, COMPAQ, IBM and GATEWAY servers.

Hope this helps