Problem Installing OS to SCSI Hard Drive

I decided to take out one of the hard drives purchased in my poweredge server to use in another macine.

I have a fully functioning LSI5C31010 U160 LSI SCSI Adapter card. I know this because I use it daily with an IBM 36Z15 SCSI Hard drive in our labs.

Here is my problem. I have a new SCSI hard drive. A 73GB Fujitsu MAP3735NP I purchased from Dell, which I am trying to load either Windows XP or 2000 onto but have been getting problems. This may get long..

With the drive set to ID0 (no pins on the underside) the SCSI scan begins and hangs at ID0, HD1. I get around this by enabling the HD termination.

It then spins up the drive at the scsi bios and seems to go fine. The SCSI scan will hand if the drive is spinning at the time of the scan.

When trying to install Windows 2000 I get the message - "Disk I/o error: status 0000BB01" - Failed to Arcread the boot partition to check for signature.

Sometimes the error message changes to 00002001.

When trying to install windows XP all goes well until it gets to choosing a HD for installation. It says Examining 0mb, Disk 0, at ID0 on bus 0 on sym_3.."

Then it says it can’t install there because it can’t read it.

It see's the drive but can't do anything to it, write protect is not enabled on the drive.

I have been able to format and verify the hard drive throught the scsi bios. The hard drive is brand new and was replaced once already as we thought the problem might be due to a fualy drive.

Also – on the scsi bios menu under SYNC it says ‘no’ where my other scsi drive says ‘160.0’. Could this be the problem? How could I enable it?

I can find very little on the subject of arcread using google.

Any ideas?

Thanks