Win2k Server install problem with Raid???

[tkistre]

I am building a server for an office and setting up my first RAID PC. I have a Gigabyte GA-7VRXP motherboard w/ onboard Promise RAID controller, Athlon XP 2000+, 1 gig DDR PC2700 Micron memory, 2- WD 100gig Hard drives, floppy, CDRom & Zip drive. I have the CDRom & Zip drive on IDE 1, nothing on IDE 2, both hard drives on IDE 3 and nothing on IDE 4. I have the Promise controller enabled in BIOS and told the BIOS to boot 1st- Floppy, 2nd- CDRom (for Win2k setup) and 3rd- to SCSI. When I went into RAID utility, I set it up to RAID 1 to mirror the drives for security. All went well and utility claims everything is functional. When I start Win2k Server setup, I press the F6 key to load a 3rd party SCSI driver. Once I get to that point in setup, I put in the driver I got with motherboard (and tried the latest from Gigabyte's site), choose the driver for Win2k, but when I press Enter, this is the message I get:

File \Win2000\Fasttrak.sys caused an unexpected error (18) at line 1211 in F:\nt\private\ntos\boot\setup\oemdisk.c.

These are the only drivers I can find and find it hard to believe both are bad. I can not get past this point, unless I let it continue without loading the drivers which leads to Win2k not seeing the drives to do installation. Any help would greatly be appreciated. I stumped! Thanks!

Tman

 

[stash]

i would try redownloading the driver and extracting it to a different floppy.

Sounds like something on the floppy got corrupted.

 

[Goosemastertemp]

yeah... i would check the floppy disk and drive..


Coincidently I was also recently reinstalling win2k adv server...some how nimda got through...


THe floppy on the server I was working on was screwed yp and I got about the same error...once I fixed it the install went through flawlessly

 

[tkistre]

:disgust: Thanks for getting a response so quick! I did download the driver again, put it on another new floppy, put in another floppy drive but unfortunately it still prompts the same error as listed above. I really don't think it is a hardware issue, but do not know what to do.

If you or anyone has any other ideas, please feel free to share. I need this dude up and running! Thanks again!

 

[stash]

this maybe a stupid question, but are you sure its the right driver for your RAID controller?

 

[tkistre]

Yes, Stash, I do have the right drivers.

Well, I got it going. I got this answer from another forum I posted to. When I read the directions on the CD manuel for making my floppy with the drivers for Win2k setup, all it stated was to put the files on a floppy for the operating system you were using. It didn't state to keep them in a folder. So all seven files were on a:\. They should have been like this:

a:\README.TXT
a:\setup.txt
a:\FASTTRAK
a:\Txtsetup.oem
a:\Win2000\FASTTRAK.CAT
a:\Win2000\FASTTRAK.INF
a:\Win2000\FASTTRAK.SYS

As you can see in the error it gave me, the file causing the unexpected error, was in a folder. I didn't notice that. Once I put the files in a folder as suggested at the other forum, it loaded right up. I'm formatting the drives now. Thanks for all the input. I'll post again if I run into any problems. Thanks again!