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7.8

SATA Raid Headache !!

Asked by SeventhZen in Windows 2003 Server

Tags: m110, proliant, hp, sata

Hi Experts,

i am hoping someone can help as I have been working on this for two days now and I have to have the system setup in two days time.

I have a HP Proliant M110 server, without a floppy drive. I am having a real headache getting the controller to work with 2K3 without an onboard Floppy disk.
I have searched the forums already and found someone with an identical problem..
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/Windows_Server_2003/Q_21590644.html?query=HP+Proliant+sata+raid+floppy&clearTAFilter=true

So I get a USB floppy, use the support disk that came with the server to copy the drivers onto a floppy.
Hit F6 at setup, specify the additional controller, so far so good. Goes through the setup process, choose relevant partition and then I get a message stating that "please insert disk labeled SATA Controller for Windows 32 Bit (2000, XP, 2003)". All I can do is press enter or quit but no matter what the system won't recognize the floppy disk connected to it, it is the same disk that I used to specify an additional controller but it just won't do anything. Then all I can do is restart and go back through the process again. I have tried everything I can think of and even downloaded a USB Key utility from HP which wasn't very helpful.

The support CD states that 2003 already has support for the HP Embedded Raid controller but if I leave it and don't specify an additional controller, setup doesn't find any hard drives.

I am stumped and like I said, now starting to sweat with this deadline is quickly approaching.

Anyone with any advice?

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