Add a SCSI HDD to NT Server with IDE drives?

[nolacoaches]

I have an NT Server with 2 IDE mirrored drives. I wanted to format a new SCSI drive NTFS and this NT box has a SCSI controller for the tape drive in it, so I plugged in the SCSI drive. NT no can find. It's there in BIOS. If I control A into the SCSI Utilities I can find it and do a low level format but neither Disk Administrator nor Partition Manager find it. Just for fun, I unplugged the IDE drives and booted up with a WIN2K setup disk, found the SCSI drive and formatted it NTFS. Plugged the IDE drives back in and NT still cann't find it. Why not? Is there some rule about mixing IDE and SCSI drives?

 

[Psingh]

u can't mix IDE drives with SCSI drives, as IDE works on Master and Slave settings whereas SCSI works on ID numbers.

PSingh

 

[tahoe2]

I have a NT 4.0 server with 2 SCSI drives and 3 IDE drives.
During routine maintenance, I opened a server and found a stack of unplugged IDE hard drives. I plugged them in and the server found them just fine. No problems at all.
The SCSI drives were the original ones, so maybe that is the trick, I don't know.
On a side note, I broke the mirror before I plugged in the extra HD's.

Hope this helps!

Corie

Ps, the server uses an Adaptec SCSI card, not the onboard SCSI drivers, which are disabled, thats what probably makes them all active.

 

[Pennanti]

This page may help you trouble shoot.

http://www.storagereview.com/guide2000/ref/hdd/if/scsi/confIDE.html