Guest bill allemann Posted November 3, 2007 Posted November 3, 2007 I had an unused win2000 server package laying around so I wanted to save some $ and use it for a very low-tech server. I bought a new Dell SC440 and it comes with a "Server Assistant" software package on the install CD. The software seems to have dealt OK with a mirror RAID configuration with the two identical SATA hard drives. The BIOS boot screen shows one drive now, and displays a Ctrl-C prompt to access the RAID config. It appears that the assistant software will deal only with Win2003 server, though, to finish the OS install. A tech guy at Dell told me that there shouldn't be anything on the machine that would preclude using win2k as an OS. I bailed out of the assistant software and rebooted to the win2k CD, and I'm thinking that I need to direct it to the hard drive/controller info at the F6 prompt. Among many other folders, the install CD has folders for SAS RAID, which is what's in the box. The folder has a number of subfolders, though with numeric labels. How can I figure out which folder to use with the browse after using the F6 prompt? Thanks, Bill
Guest DL Posted November 3, 2007 Posted November 3, 2007 Re: win2000 server on new Dell machine The F6 prompt requires that you use a floppy only. I believe you need the inif file for the Raid controler which would appear to be a SAS5i/R The SAS folder is probably specific to Server Assisstant and win2003. Do not Dell downloads for your tag have a sata controler file? "bill allemann" <custom4173@sbcglobal.netINVALID> wrote in message news:uty0%23eiHIHA.1208@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >I had an unused win2000 server package laying around so I wanted to save >some $ and use it for a very low-tech server. > I bought a new Dell SC440 and it comes with a "Server Assistant" software > package on the install CD. > The software seems to have dealt OK with a mirror RAID configuration with > the two identical SATA hard drives. > The BIOS boot screen shows one drive now, and displays a Ctrl-C prompt to > access the RAID config. > > It appears that the assistant software will deal only with Win2003 server, > though, to finish the OS install. > A tech guy at Dell told me that there shouldn't be anything on the machine > that would preclude using win2k as an OS. > I bailed out of the assistant software and rebooted to the win2k CD, and > I'm thinking that I need to direct it to > the hard drive/controller info at the F6 prompt. > Among many other folders, the install CD has folders for SAS RAID, which > is what's in the box. The folder has a number of subfolders, though with > numeric labels. How can I figure out which folder to use with the browse > after using the F6 prompt? > > Thanks, Bill >
Guest bill allemann Posted November 6, 2007 Posted November 6, 2007 Re: win2000 server on new Dell machine I did find a driver file ( and thanks for the suggestion) and got quite a bit further, but still having problems. I will start a new post. Bill "DL" <address@invalid> wrote in message news:eZipemjHIHA.3548@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > The F6 prompt requires that you use a floppy only. > > I believe you need the inif file for the Raid controler which would appear > to be a SAS5i/R > The SAS folder is probably specific to Server Assisstant and win2003. > > Do not Dell downloads for your tag have a sata controler file? >
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