Installing Windows NT on SCSI drives

[EST7745]

I'm using the Adaptec 29160 SCSI controller with 2 18 gig SCSI drives. I'm curious as to how I need to go about installing Windows NT on to these drives. Are there any user friendly manuals on this procedure?? Any info would be greatly appreciated!

 

[Stiddy]

Don't know what kind of server you have but when you boot it up go into the SCSI config program. I use IBM server and for example, I have a cdrom which I can boot and configure RAID or mirror sets.

 

[bakbacon]

I am also installing windows NT 4.0 (actually Back office server 4.0) onto 2 36GB drives (mirrored) and I am using the adaptec 29160 adapter. The problem that I am having is that I can not get the install to recognize the SCSI ID 0 with a partition larger than 1024MB. It shows the drive as 35003MB in full volume size but it only allows a partition on the unpartitioned space of 1024. Disk 2 (ID 1) has the full volume size listed.
I have attempted to fdisk a small partition of 500MB and restart the installation but it will only see the other 524MB of space (this was a suggestion that I read on the windows knowledge base). I have also checked the SCSI bios to see if the "larger than 1024" option is enabled and it is. I am current out of ideas. Any suggestions????

 

[LarryTheCucumber]

See

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;137474

NT on SCSI drives

 

[bakbacon]

Thank you for your posting. I figured a way around it. I used the SCSI utility and reformatted the drive. When I restarted the installation process the drive volume size changed to 8048MB. So I then created a partion of 4095 and installed Windows NT 4.0 on it. After the installation process I was able to use disk administrator to do the rest.