Proliant 3000 Server

[Kyle Sexton]

On 3/10/07, RtX <riverty at gmail.com> wrote:
> Kyle,
>
> Thank you for getting back to me.
>
> The answer is no. Or possibly it is hidden? On boot, there is nothing that
> suggests that I could get into a SCSI controller BIOS. I have restored the
> "utilities partition", a ~38 MB partition on disk 0 that holds the programs
> needed to program the system BIOS for things like time and date, PCI cards
> and the like. Nothing in there would allow me to setup an array. I can
> access this by pressing "F10" as usual on a Compaq.
>
> The machine has a Symbios Logic 53C876 SCSI Controller onboard. Someone
> suggested in a post I found on the net that this controller was a SCSI
> controller, but did not support RAID. While I'm sure this is possible, I
> would think it unlikely that the machine has 7 SCSI HDD's and does not
> support RAID.
>

If it's the case that the card doesn't support RAID (which from my 2
minutes of googling seems to be the case) you could always just use
Linux Software RAID.

-- 
Kyle Sexton