First post, by iulianv
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A few days ago I got a complete IBM PC Server 325 (8639-ES0), and after a whole week-end of (dis)assembling, dusting, washing and drying its parts I put it back together and started testing stuff...
The issue that's bothering me right now is that the thing hangs instantly when trying to access a floppy disk (and the FDD's LED remains lit). It only happens when there is a disk in the drive and it doesn't matter how I'm trying to access the floppy (reading in Win95, booting from it, formatting from a diagnostic tool I managed to boot from the CD). I tried different (known-to-be-good) floppy drives, floppy disks and floppy cables, but nothing changed - have you ever encountered anything similar?
With or without floppy I'm going to add the second PPro/200 CPU, another 64MB DIMM next to the existing 2*32 and maybe replace the 4.5GB SCSI HDD with a RAID array made of 3*4GB drives - after that, the question is: should I stick to WinNT4 or should I try Win2000? 😀