RE: Building the HP ML110 G4

["Paul Gordon" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Brian, I had similar scenario not long ago... in a nutshell, you can
use
the USB drive to *successfully* find the driver floppy via the F6 option
during the *text mode* portion of the setup - as you have done.

This however, does not actually copy the RAID drivers off the floppy
onto the HDD, - as the HDD hasn't been formatted at that point. What it
does do is make a note that the drivers need to be read from the floppy
later on during the setup process, after the HDD is available...

However, when that later point arrives, the USB device is no longer
available... - I *think* this was probably being caused by issues of
whether the USB support was provided by the mobo BIOS, or by the Windows
USB driver subsystem. - I think in my case it was "in-between"
these two
states, and thus there was *no* functioning USB support at the time, &
thus the USB floppy could no longer be read, hence the RAID drivers
couldn't be loaded.

The *only* way I was able to get round this (it being a laptop, so
temporarily whacking in a standard floppy drive not an option), was to
burn a new Windows install CD with the necessary RAID driver
slipstreamed in, thus no load from floppy was then required...

Possibly not exactly what's happening in your case, but may give you
some ideas....

HTH

Paul G.


-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of ReynoldsB
Sent: 20 February 2008 20:04
To: UKHA Group
Subject: [ukha_d] Building the HP ML110 G4

Hi all,

Sorry for this but I am having a job creating an array than Windows SBS
2000
and Windows 2003 Server can see.

I have enabled the RAID in the BIOS and created the array using the F6
option during boot up. When the servers boot the drive is seen and
optimised
but when I start to load the server software it asks for the drivers to
be
installed via a USB Floppy which I do okay but still windows can not
find a
mass storage device to install onto so gives you the F3 option to quit!

Could someone point me to the correct RAID drivers in case I have got
the
wrong ones?

I have now gone into the disk utility and selected format which is now
on
20% which has taken about 3 hours so far..

Any suggestions would be very well received!

Thanks all,

B.


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