RAID Setup Assistance

[Net Llama!]

On 01/19/04 17:01, Kurt Wall wrote:
> In a 2.4K blaze of typing glory, Chong Yu Meng wrote:
>>If memory serves, the way to configure RAID is:
>>1. Install the card and hook up the drives, making sure that all IDs are 
>>set correctly, and that the cable is properly terminated
>>2. Since you are using a SCSI card, there should be an option during 
>>bootup to escape to the SCSI BIOS (for Adaptec it is Ctrl+<A>, not sure 
>>about Mylex, though)
> 
> 
> The interesting thing: Ctrl+A brought up the SCSI BIOS, but the attached
> disks were not detected. Only the SCSI controller. I presume this is
> because the SCSI controller is situated on the RAID controller, but I
> honestly don't know, now having cracked the thing open yet.
> 
> Alt+M opened the RAID BIOS, but there was nothing there that suggested
> I could reset anything so, failing that, I left everything as it was.
> It isn't broken, so I don't need to "fix" it.

ALT-R is what gets you into the Mylex RAID configuration utility.

You might also want to take a look at 
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/README.DAC960 for more info.

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