Installation on ProLiant 800 fails SCSI HDD
I am having a problem with my ProLiant 800 server, with dual 200MHx Pro's and SCSI interface.
I've tested the drive every way I can think of, and it passes. Every time I install Linux (doesn't matter which distro, I dug up RH and it did the same thing) it finds the SCSI interface. It loads, or attempts to load, the drivers for Symbios 53X8XX, or something like that. And fails the drive for parity errors and then cfdisk and fdisk (Linux) indicate no drive present.. I have even made boot disks with the kernels on it specific for the NCR 53x8XX and Symbios 52x8XX controllers, but the same thing happened. I got challenged to load 98 back on it, it took the install, but won't boot. It stalls in the Windows screen, then error's out saying it can't write to drive C:. What is the deal? What am I doing wrong?
BIOS/Config settings are as follows.
SCSI interface set as "first controller"
IDE set as second, CD is hooked to Primary IDE as Master, nothing is connected to Slave, or either position Secondary IDE.
All self diag of the system with the included utilities pass everything, well, except the CD fails because I think it thinks it is a HDD.
I have tried four Slack Kernels, 3 Mandrakes, and 2 different versions of RH. I have tried strait from CD, and boot disk floppy. I have even copied data to the C:, in a DOS mode. I put a DOS partition with fdisk(DOS), formatted it, put data on it and ran Scandisk, no problems found.
Updates to BIOS say that there are no devices on this unit to which the update are applicable.
What am I missing? I told the people in the LUG (Linux Users Group) that I was going to yank the SCSI and go with a set of IDE's if I don't find the answer soon.
Thanks in advance for your help.
D.W.
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