Proliant 3000 Server

[RtX]

Kyle,

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.

On 3/10/07, Kyle Sexton <ks at mocker.org> wrote:
>
> 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
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RtX...

Ty Unes - Overland Park, Ks.
riverty at gmail.com
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