Hi.

Ok, this is driving me nuts. We have here a dual Xeon server box, with a Supermicro X6DA8-G2 motherboard, etc. It has two onboard Ultra320 SCSI channels, provided by an Adaptec AIC-7902 controller, and channel A is connected to a pair of 76GB Seagate Barracuda 10Krpm drives. It also has a pair of 500GB Sata drives.

The two scsi drives are currently set up as a striped raid array for maximum speed. I know for a fact all this works, as originally it was running 2000 on one of the sata drives, and using the scsi array for data.

We want to reinstall the thing with XP, and get it booting from the SCSI drives. However, I can't even get the damn thing to recognise the scsi drives during XP setup. I have downloaded the drivers from Supermicro's website, and tried them. I have download a number of drivers for what purports to be the correct device from Adaptec's website and tried them. I have googled for other drivers, and tried THEM. None of them do anyting useful at all.

Setup simply says it can't find any drives and quits, unless I have the sata drives connected, in which case it finds them which is not what I want.

Does anyone have any ideas? I've been fiddling with the thing for hours, as have a couple of others with substantial windows experience, and we're all stumped.

pca