Kyle,<br><br>You were right and thank you for starting me in that direction. The onboard controller does not support RAID. Easy fix as I added an Adaptec SCSI controller and all is good with RAID 5. Thanks again.<br><br><div>
<span class="gmail_quote">On 3/10/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Kyle Sexton</b> <<a href="mailto:ks@mocker.org">ks@mocker.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 3/10/07, RtX <<a href="mailto:riverty@gmail.com">riverty@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Kyle,<br>><br>> Thank you for getting back to me.<br>><br>> The answer is no. Or possibly it is hidden? On boot, there is nothing that
<br>> suggests that I could get into a SCSI controller BIOS. I have restored the<br>> "utilities partition", a ~38 MB partition on disk 0 that holds the programs<br>> needed to program the system BIOS for things like time and date, PCI cards
<br>> and the like. Nothing in there would allow me to setup an array. I can<br>> access this by pressing "F10" as usual on a Compaq.<br>><br>> The machine has a Symbios Logic 53C876 SCSI Controller onboard. Someone
<br>> suggested in a post I found on the net that this controller was a SCSI<br>> controller, but did not support RAID. While I'm sure this is possible, I<br>> would think it unlikely that the machine has 7 SCSI HDD's and does not
<br>> support RAID.<br>><br><br>If it's the case that the card doesn't support RAID (which from my 2<br>minutes of googling seems to be the case) you could always just use<br>Linux Software RAID.<br><br>--<br>
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</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>RtX...<br><br>Ty Unes - Overland Park, Ks.<br><a href="mailto:riverty@gmail.com">riverty@gmail.com</a>