Want to add bootable CD drive on PC Server 330

[BorderMancer]

I went through 8 hours of pain today with my IBM PC Server 330 (mod. 8640-PB0). Somehow the three drives in my RAID 5 array got set to DDD when I tried to add a RAID 1 array to the configuration. My biggest problem was trying to start the server, which would not recognize any of the OS drives containing my Windows 2000 installation, using the ServeRAID configuration utility. Because ServeRAID 4-H does not support a boot CD drive, I tried in vain to boot with a DOS diskette and add CD device drivers so I could run the ServeRAID utility.

Is there a better solution? Is it possible to install an IDE CD-ROM drive that can be made bootable? Or does anyone know the steps, and drivers required, for adding DOS CD drivers to get the SCSI CD drive working before Windows is loaded?

 

[rwullems]

Hi,
I had the same problem ad you have right now.
fixed it by installing and IDE controler with an IDE CD ROM drive, then booted with a DOS floppy with support for the CD-ROM drive.
At that point everything worked fine until W2K needed an reboot during the install. When comming back up, W2K setup could'n find the CD ROM drive anymore!

It drove me mad and took me hours...........

Finally, booted from Floppy with CD-ROM Support, copied the complete W2K CD to the SCSI drive and installed W2K from there.

I know this was probably not the best soltution, at least, there should have been a better one, but this one worked for me.
Robert