On IBM Server

I have a question. I just bought a IBM xSeries 235 P4 XEON 2.66Ghz 512Mb Computer Server, then I went and got a IBM 36.4 GB 15K Ultra320 Disks 32P0734 w/ Hot Swap Tray.

I went to install Windows Xp Professional on it for now, until I go and get a Windows Server O/S. Started to to setup XP and then it gave me this error: "Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer." Then I went into the HUGE BIOS that is in this system and did a complete test on everything, it all passed. HD was there, CD-Rom, etc all there.

So I went to IBM to find drivers for the SCSI I got; in which I can not find any there and looked on the net, again nothing that I found.

Question(s):
1. Can Windows XP be installed on that server?
2. Can anyone help me find drivers for the HD?
3. Any information would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance,
DMT

 

It would appear so since there are drivers for that OS

A quick google gave me this site

No problem, let me know if it helps

 

windows xp does not support the ibm raid controler by default .. install the drivers during install

 

Expanding on bilus's brief instructions, in case you need them

 

Sorry about that Admin. Also thank you for placing the thread in the right area for me.

Thanks for everyone who replied.

Wildfire, Ive done that and still nothing. I getting the error "setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer "

Ive looked here as well: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313348
It just gave me a bunch of information, but no downloads to fix the issue.

I am going to see if I can buy a windows server o/s. Maybe that will work instead.


DMT

 

Head over to http://www.driverpacks.net/DriverPacks/ & check if your hardware is listed in Mass Storage pack. If it is, just download everything & make a slipstream Win XP disk [read the forum on how to do it] and install from it. Most of the drivers would be picked up & installed automatically.

 

i know for a fact it will work if you load the correct drive via floppy during the setup. xp can use 2003 drivers.

 

I just need to figure out which file to put on floppy, so that I can get it working.

DMT

 

Okay I went there downloaded the file(s). Placed AD5 and L10 on two different via floppy. It has now asked me for textsetup.oem. The list to that DriverPack looks like so:
9.01 (09 January 2009, 1414BC6639F60EC4D91D97A2D3E72A9A MD5 hash 5.58 MB (5,858,813 bytes)))
Changed
- [I3] Intel Maxtrix Storage 09/29/2007,7.8.0.1012, support hardware not covered by new intel driver
- [AD2] removed
- [IB4] removed
- [IB5] removed
- [V4] removed, covered by [V3]
- [NV5] removed %NVSTOR_DESC%=Crush11_Inst,PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_037F&CC_0104 from INF
- [NV6] removed %NVSTOR_DESC%=Crush11_Inst,PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0266&CC_0104 from INF
- [L6] renamed to [L11]
- [L7] renamed to [L5]
- [L8] renamed to [L6]
- [D1] removed, covered by new [L8]
- [D2] removed, covered by new [L9]
- [D3] renamed to [D1]
Fixed
- [AD] removed, covered by [H]
- [H4] removed, covered by [H]
- [C] Split ini into 3 sections, driver is natively supported by xp and 2003
- All INI device name were standardised
- [V1] Added VIA Raid INI section back
- [I5] removed ich8ahci.inf,ich8ahci.cat,ich9ahci.inf and ich9ahci.cat;covered by [I4]
- Rework all Nvidia INI sections
- [AU] removed, natively supported by XP SP3,2K3 SP2
- [AM] added replaceIfOS= "w2k3" to INI, removed PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4380, tag name updated
- [AM2] added PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4391&SUBSYS_11171043 in INI and INF
- [V3] added missing hwids, changed tag name to replace native driver
- [AM],[AM1],[AT],[AU],[E],[NV5],[NV6],[NVTM],[SIS3] and [V3] changed ms_1_isBusExtender=true
- [P7] Removed invalid HWID, changed device name to be unique
- [J] jraid_i.inf causes BSOD in AHCI/RAID modes and was removed
- PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2829 moved from [I4] to [I3] section in the INI; fix a bug with Virtual Box SATA
New
- [ADC] Adaptec SAS/SATA-II RAID for server 2003, 02/08/2008,5.2.0.15728
- [AM1] AMD PCI SATA/IDE Controller 10/11/2007,5.1.0.8
- [AM2] AMD AHCI RAID 7xx 03/07/2008, 3.1.1540.50
- [AM3] AMD AHCI RAID 6xx 08/08/2007, 2.500.1540.47
- [H3K] Highpoint RocketRaid RR182x/181x for windows 2000
- [H3S] Highpoint RocketRaid RR182x/181x for windows 2003
- [I4] Matrix Storage 09/12/2008,8.6.0.1007
- [SIS3] SiS 5513/5518 IDE UDMA 09/15/2003,5.1.1039.2041
- [3C] 3ware Escalade 7000/8000 05/13/2004,1.15.00.014
- [I5] Intel IDE/SATA drivers from chipset 9.1.0.1007
- Broadcom HT1000 SATA 02/27/2007,1.1.7057.1
- [L6] LSI Embedded MegaRAID/Intel Embedded Server RAID Technology II 06/26/2008, 11.02.0626.2008
- [L7],[L8] LSI Logic SAS 3000/Dell SAS 5X/6I 06/03/2008,1.28.03.00
- [L10] LSI Logic Ultra320 SCSI RAID/2000/VMWare LSI 06/03/2008,1.28.03.00
- [L4] LSI MegaRAID SAS RAID XP 02/14/2008,2.20.0.32
Updated
- [INI] Initio INIC162X SATA RAID 07/08/2005, 5.05.05.0708
- [ADB] Adaptec SAS/SATA-II RAID for XP, from 09/15/2007, 5.2.0.15317 to 02/08/2008, 5.2.0.15728
- [M] Marvell 61XX RAID controller from 10/18/2007,1.2.0.51 to 07/22/2008,1.2.0.60
- [D2] Dell Perc 6i from 12/15/2006,2.8.0.32 to 06/06/2007,2.14.0.32
- [C2] Compaq\HP ProLiant B400i/E200/E200i/E500/P400/P400i/P600/P700m/P800 from 06/16/2006, 5.8.0.32 to 08/29/2008,6.13.0.32
- [H9],[H9S] Highpoint RocketRAID 172x SATA from 06/12/2007, 1.0.7.612 to 10/29/2007, 1.1.7.1029
- [H] HighPoint Rocket 100/133/HPT3xx ATA RAID 01/05/2004, 2.351
- [Q3] QLogic QLA23xx/QLA24xx PCI Fibre Channel from 06/13/2002,8.1.5.12 to 05/22/2008,9.1.7.18
- [L2] LSI Logic MegaRAID Enterprise 1200 RAID from 01/08/2004,6.41.32 to 08/15/2007,6.51.2.32
- [C1] Compaq\HP Smart Array 5x/6x from 10/26/2006, 5.74.0.32 to 09/21/2007, 5.80.0.32
- [AD5] Adaptec Ultra160 SCSI from 03/19/2002,6.2.0000.000 to 02/04/2004,6.4.630.100
- [SC] Silicon Image SiI 3132 SoftRaid 5 from 03/31/2005, 1.2.3.1 to 05/30/2007, 1.5.18.0
- [L5] LSI MegaRAID SAS RAID 2K/2K3 from 05/05/2006,1.20.0.32 to 12/03/2007,2.20.0.32
- [J] JMicron JMB36X from 06/17/2008, 1.17.38.05 to 11/03/2008, 1.17.43.05
- [V1],[V2] and [V3] updated to Hyperion 5.22a


Thus far I will continue to see which other file I need to DL via floppy.


DMT

 

goto ibm's website .. find the sata or scsi driver thats used on your server. those files go on your floppy.

 

DMT you don't need to download a specific driver from driverpacks.net. You download everything, follow the instructions & burn a new Win XP cd with all the drivers on it. It does not support download & install of a specific driver.

Since it is a server class machine, I very much doubt if IBM would provide drivers for desktop class OS [XP/Vista] for this machine.

 

Last time I worked on SCSI (not recently ), the HDDs are numbered, via a jumper. You install (installed?) the OS on number 0 or 1 HDD.

Look at the specifications for the server. Go to the manufacturer of the SCSI controller. They should offer a download of a utility to examine the drives and setup.

The drives may have been set-up/partitioned on a different OS to Windows.

SCSI is not like IDE or SATA. I think you will need to research how it works (I know I would need to update my research on SCSI if I were to work on it again ).

Matt

 

Thus far I've taken bilbus advice and I've download two drives for the SCSI, last night. So after breakfast and some coffee, I will run them two and see if that will work.

@ risinfor:
I'm starting to believe that is the case. I bought a Windows Server 2008 O/S and it will be here within 4-5 days. Hopefully it will make a BIG difference.

@Mattman:
When I got the Ultra320 SCSI, I didn't mess with the junpers, nor did it state on the SCSI how setup the jumpers. So I left the jumpers only and place the SCSI one up from the bottom. Also I wouldn't know how to install it on 0 or 1 HDD.
This type of system or as rsinfo would call it server class machine, is this very first one I have worked on. However the Ultra320 is the first HDD installed on the machine.
Yes mattman, I see that SCSI isn't like a SATA or IDE, believe me I've looked for converters.

DMT