Proliant 3000 hot plug cage cannot be recognized by Win2k

Hi I'm trying to resurrect a Proliant 3000 w/ hot plug cage. The cage has
18gig Compaq OEM drives. All drives are scanned correctly by the BIOS at
startup. The drives can be accessed with SmartStart and I can write the F10
partition to it no problem. If I boot from a seperate drive w/ Win2k, the
drives are recognized in device manager, but nothing shows up in Disk
Management. If I try to install Win2K directly to the array, Windows 2000
says "Cannot access the drive"

Frustrating. Anybody got an idea?

are you using an array controller, or are these running off the onboard scsi
controller? If you are using the onboard, you wont be able to hot-swap the
drives, just so you know.

Have you written signatures to the drives, and created volumes on them that
2K can then interact with?

LC

"Colin Anderson" wrote in message
news:C17sb.27420$jy.8801@clgrps13...
Hi I'm trying to resurrect a Proliant 3000 w/ hot plug cage. The cage has
18gig Compaq OEM drives. All drives are scanned correctly by the BIOS at
startup. The drives can be accessed with SmartStart and I can write the
F10
partition to it no problem. If I boot from a seperate drive w/ Win2k, the
drives are recognized in device manager, but nothing shows up in Disk
Management. If I try to install Win2K directly to the array, Windows 2000
says "Cannot access the drive"

Frustrating. Anybody got an idea?

thanks for the reply. Onboard SCSI controller. Don't care about hot swap.
Can't write a signature to the drive unless I can access it in Disk Manager.
Ditto for volumes. The drives show up in Device Manager, but do not show up
in Disk Manager.


"NuT CrAcKeR" wrote in message
...
are you using an array controller, or are these running off the onboard
scsi
controller? If you are using the onboard, you wont be able to hot-swap the
drives, just so you know.

Have you written signatures to the drives, and created volumes on them
that
2K can then interact with?

LC

"Colin Anderson" wrote in message
news:C17sb.27420$jy.8801@clgrps13...
Hi I'm trying to resurrect a Proliant 3000 w/ hot plug cage. The cage
has
18gig Compaq OEM drives. All drives are scanned correctly by the BIOS at
startup. The drives can be accessed with SmartStart and I can write the
F10
partition to it no problem. If I boot from a seperate drive w/ Win2k,
the
drives are recognized in device manager, but nothing shows up in Disk
Management. If I try to install Win2K directly to the array, Windows
2000
says "Cannot access the drive"

Frustrating. Anybody got an idea?

Fixed my own problem. Took out all the cables, threw 'em out, bought new
ones, works. ****! Three days wasted. Thanks, Nutcracker.