I have never messed with SCSI b4. I work for a computer recycler and can do anything with just about any computer, excepts macs....lol...but in my first experience with SCSI I came across a nice full tower case with wheels. So I decided I wanted the case so I took the whole computer home. When I got home I cracked open the case and found dual PII 400s, 4 IBM SCSI 9.6gb HDDs and 1gb of ram. When I booted the system it booted fine and came to NT enterprise with a password prompt. So I formated the drive with a win98se boot disk. I started the Windows XP Pro install and it started and then it came to the point of it having to reboot to finish the install. So when it went down to reboot it came back up and it gives me an error of no disk found or something to that extent its been a week since i messed with it. So I assume the SCSI drivers arent loading for the controller to access the HDD's. SO my question is how do I solve this issue to continue the install of the OS and possibly use the computer as a file server or some sort of back up machine here at home. The controller card is the MYLEX DAC960LB. It has IBM memory onboard and is branded with an ibm sticker on the back. I believe I found WIN95 drivers for the card but I need to figure out how to get this thing to boot those drivers and get the install finished up. Thanks for any help.

I believe the MYLEX Card is too old for WinXP, it has been a long time since I setup a MYLEX Card but believe NT4 has the drivers included. You could try finding NT4 drivers and offer them when you are prompted to hit F6 at start of install, they need to be on a floppy, MYLEX now belongs to: www.lsilogic.com

If all you are looking for is to set up a server try Linux, What you have there is I think quite a little find (wish I had it) with it having dual prosseors and a scsi drive system think about looking at Fedora Core 4 , it will fit on there nice and support the dual cpu perfect, what you would end up with is a screaming file server and wont cost you a dime.....IMHO Keep the old stuff running

i was looking into centos also. i would like to give that a shot, with it being an open source variant of RHEL

Look into Suse Enterprise Server. Free and a kickin GUI for Linux morons like me. In fact it was the only distro I had no trouble with on a SCSI array. Jimi_l