The message 1131570239.3072.435.camel@localhost.localdomain from Wayne Stallwood ALUGlist@digimatic.plus.com contains these words:
On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 16:51 +0000, Anthony Anson wrote:
The first was a PIII-450 which *DID* have problems, and there was no way Win 2000 would go on - it started from the (SCSI) CD-ROM, but when it needed to refer to CD again, it refused to find it
That is a very common thing with Windows 2000/NT and some SCSI controllers. There is some keypress (F6 ? I can't remember) that has to be made at an exact point during the install phase (at least 2000 prompts for it *I think*) at that point you pop your SCSI drivers on a floppy and point it at them.
Yes, that's the one (I can't remember which keystroke either), but it didn't help to install the driver. (I have it on CD and floppy.)
The reason it boots from the CD and then refuses to find it is that before the installation kernel loads everything is being done in legacy emulation...at the point the installation kernel loads if it hasn't got the correct SCSI drivers it is a bit stuck.
Funnily enough some people installing WinXP on modern SATA or on board RAID machines have to play the same game even today.
Why am I not surprised?