Poweredge 2300

[Guest_imported]

Hi there,

I own a Dell Poweredge 2300, and had it running on a regular 50 pin scsi harddrive for two years, until now that i bought a Seagate Cheetah ST39102LC.

If i go into the SCSI utility thing, i can see the drive and format it and all seems fine, But when i try and install Windows NT4, it says can't find any harddisk.

I tried downloading all the drivers from DELL, but when i enter the disk and NT looks for drivers in it... says the hardware is not installed.

I know the hardware is fine because i can format the disk from the SCSI Utility at startup.

Has anyone been thru this ?

Best regards,

Carlos.

 

[johnv20]

What controller are you using to run the drive off ? It sounds most likely that the driver for the controller is not on the NT CD so you will have to load it manually during install. The site

http://support.euro.dell.com

contains all the latest drivers.

 

[SpecificWare]

Your disk size is 9.1 GB and Windows NT installation does not recognize anything larger than 4 GB. I found it best to run fdisk and create a maximum 4 GB partition. Once you load WinNT OS, you can partition the remainder of the disk.

 

[mholland88]

I am sure you have solved your issue by now, this is just to let other people know. When you are installing NT 4.0 with any SCSI controller you have to press F6, when you see "Setup is inspecting your hardware" Then load the SCSI driver. In your post you mentioned you have a 50 pin SCSI drive, so either you had an adapter to connect it to the 7890 controller which is a 68 pin controller, or the hard drive was daisy chained with the CDROM. Your new drive is probally a 68 pin drive. Since you can format it you have the Primary SCSI 7890 enabled in the Bios.

The previous post is correct about NT 4.0 limitation of a 4 gig C: drive, but you can create this during setup. There are work arounds to make a bigger partition, but I will not go into that. The only time I have had to run fdisk and create a parition is if I have multiple drives on a plain SCSI controller or multiple containers on a Raid controller. If you do not do that step sometimes you end up with a 1 gig C drive. The SCSI driver you want is on Dells download site file name 303s9A04.exe. This file contains the drivers for the 7860, 7880, 7890, 2940, and 2940U2W controllers

 

[1sexypapi]

Use the Sever disk utility that comes with the server it willl create a partition that it needs to install NT 4.0 it's a 32MB utility partition as well as using the f6 at the beginning of the installation and manually loading the scsi drivers, this should work for you but i am sure you got this already