Proliant 3000 Server

[Jeffrey McCright]

Kyle,

The integrated Symbios Logic 53C876 Ultra-wide SCSI controller in the Compaq 
Proliant 3000 you mention is simply a dual Channel Ultra -Wide SCSI-2 
controller. The specs mention nothing of hardware RAID support. You can 
research the specifications, support instructions,  and obtain some very 
limited Linux installation support from:

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DocumentIndex.jsp?contentType=SupportManual&lang=en&cc=us&docIndexId=179911&taskId=101&prodTypeId=15351&prodSeriesId=254910#4

Good liuch and best wishes with your server project.

Sincerely,

Jeffrey A. McCright, A+
816-210-3107
jmccright at hotmail.com




>From: "Kyle Sexton" <ks at mocker.org>
>To: "KC Linux Users Group" <kclug at kclug.org>
>Subject: Re: Proliant 3000 Server
>Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 12:25:04 -0600
>
>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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