I burned a new disc from the same ISO file, and have now two discs that do the same thing, yet the one installs on a P4 machine just fine. I made a USB stick too, and might try that.
The Adaptec driver disc boots Linux so there must be at least some support for this card in Linux. The disc talks about AMD 64 and IA64, and apparently has drivers for FreeBSD, as well as Windows 98, NT4, and 2000. The floppy has drivers for XP. I now know that the card works in MSDOS, (and must therefore work in early Windows versions, 98, 95, 3.x, etc), 2000, 2003, and now XP. I know that it just doesn't work in Solaris or NetBSD.
I was on the verge of installing Ubuntu before I found out that XP SP2 would work. But if that's all I could get this thing to do I'd probably see if someone wanted to buy it, or I'd strip the hard drives out and get rid of it. I have one purpose for this machine, and I already investigated my operating system options. Unfortunately WindowsXP is the only thing I know of that will get the job done. Well, Vista, 7 or some other Windows might work, but that's a can of worms I don't want to open.
It looks like trying to install SP3 hosed the SP2 installation, so at the least I have to start over. That's probably not a bad thing because I'll seriously regret keeping the array as RAID 0.
The Adaptec driver disc boots Linux so there must be at least some support for this card in Linux. The disc talks about AMD 64 and IA64, and apparently has drivers for FreeBSD, as well as Windows 98, NT4, and 2000. The floppy has drivers for XP. I now know that the card works in MSDOS, (and must therefore work in early Windows versions, 98, 95, 3.x, etc), 2000, 2003, and now XP. I know that it just doesn't work in Solaris or NetBSD.
I was on the verge of installing Ubuntu before I found out that XP SP2 would work. But if that's all I could get this thing to do I'd probably see if someone wanted to buy it, or I'd strip the hard drives out and get rid of it. I have one purpose for this machine, and I already investigated my operating system options. Unfortunately WindowsXP is the only thing I know of that will get the job done. Well, Vista, 7 or some other Windows might work, but that's a can of worms I don't want to open.
It looks like trying to install SP3 hosed the SP2 installation, so at the least I have to start over. That's probably not a bad thing because I'll seriously regret keeping the array as RAID 0.