I started setting up a new Dell PowerEdge SC 1420 that has CERC 6 channel SATA RAID with three drives for an effective drive size just under 150 GB. Nice.

But I have to install NT 4.0 until next year when a more complete upgrade of the whole network takes place. It appears that will be a challenge…

Perhaps not so much as I had expected, if Adaptec has a driver after all. In diving into online mentions of this and similar situations, I found both No. Way. Ever. for NT4 and SATA such as this, and apparent workarounds or references to drivers.

Promise has a driver for NT for their FastTrak TX4000/S150 available, and I saw mention of Adaptec having one too. I have to return to the fray and find out for real.

This is a lesson in what happens when you try to keep going on obsolete software and systems for too long.