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by kentontator 1 view

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I am trying to reformat a HP Proliant xw460c Workstation.

It has a scsi drive so windows has to load additional drivers I am having trouble finding any that work for this here is the web site. I am loading windows 64 bit btw.
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareIndex.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodNameId=3355017&prodTypeId=12454&prodSeriesId=3355016&swLang=13&taskId=135&swEnvOID=2002#113105

thats where they have their drivers but I none that seem for what I want.

Any help would be great!

thanks

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by kentontator

Doesn't the file name to load the drivers have to be iaAHCI? for it to be able to load? If so there is no such file in this download.

by darryl~

You may have to go to the card manufacture's website to get the driver.

by darryl~

Check back to when it was first ordered/received & see if it lists the name of the RAID controller or SCSI Card....it should give some clues.

by kentontator

Everything comes standard in the hp blade, Ill see if I can't figure out what it is..

by darryl~

an IBM I had here....ended up having to take the cover off & look at the card....once I did that it was a piece of cake.

Mine all came from IBM....don't know why they do that :(

by darryl~

that's for a SAS controller....not SCSI.

What made me think of the "other" manufacture was that one I was using as a DB server...it had SCSI drives & I couldn't find them on the HP site....turned out they weren't IBM even though we ordered it from them.

by darryl~

but then when you go to download it, you end up with the SAS one.....that's the same proble I had here.

RAID controllers can be a real pain.....that's what got me so pi$$ed at Rick that time when I told him off and quit....remember?
:D

by purpleskys

yes, I do now...that seemed to take forever as it was :| I guess I was hoping that it would be helpful

by kentontator

thought this one was gonna work, but it wasnt able to load the hdd, I think this link is for the 32 bit xp, and not 64?

by darryl~

have a look....it ahs an "i" at the end of the model #

The one you gave me didn't have that.

by kentontator

since I cant find xp 64 bit ill have to try the 2003 one thanks.

by darryl~

was teasing me about...it was a PowerEdge he needed XP on....I had a hard time finding drivers for the RAID controller....I was supposed to have the computer for 2 weeks so I could set him up a cluster....2 days in, he came yelling & screeming (with his little man syndrom) that it should be finished.....I totally lost it.....

it was fun... :D

It's been my experience server hardware doesn't like you to switch their OS from what it was when it was ordered.

by darryl~

do you have a license for that you can use.....or can you even use Vista?
Does it have to be XP?

by purpleskys

you have no idea...don't happen to Darryl very often, but when it does, stand back...i just stood outta the way, was safer for me that way ;)

by darryl~

Takes a lot more that you can dish out Santee...

It was a guy I was doing DB work for....he was into Wind Development.....he had "Little man Syndrom"....a reall a$$.

:D

by kentontator

the software thats going on the blades is only good for 64 bit xp...lame i know.

by kentontator

yeah this thing is a pain, I have gotten it to work before though...and only lost the floppy disk that had all those drivers. So now trying to re-find them I have no idea where I found them in the first place.

by darryl~

I have the same problem with my GIS server here...there's one printer I can't get a driver for XP 64 bit.

Okay...is this an option?

Can you purchase a different SCSI card or swap one out of another computer?

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