No need Mammoth...you were right the first time :)
I booted from my XP cd and loaded the os on the IDE drive and it works like a champ. I really want to thank you for your help..I should have realized that's what it was doing, but I overlooked it.
You know Mammoth I bet you are right! The hard drive I have has an old intall of XP pro on it,I bet it's trying to boot from it. I'll try booting from my XP disc tonight and see if I can just reload my OS on the IDE drive. I'm using this for my personal file server, so if it ran from the IDE...
Also... I tried adding the hard drive to the mainboards IDE connector and it boots fine, but only recognizes 8 gig of the 160 gig HD. I wonder if there is a bios flash available for the board that would correct this? I tried navigating IBM's site...but found only "serveraid" downloads :(
Thx for the response Mammoth, I don't get an error, as soon as it comes time to load windows I get a glimpse of the bsod and the server restarts.
This is the card I am using...
Hello...I have a question regarding adding a IDE hard drive to my netfinity server. I am not sure of the model number, but it has duel P3-800 cpu's.
It has 2 9 gig scsi drives that work well, but I need more space. I have a 160 gig IDE deive and a PCI 133 controller card. I have installed the...
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