RAID Setup Assistance

[Matthew Carpenter]

Isn't that a long holiday?

A couple years ago one of our Chinese affiliates had an email server go toes-up right at the beginning of the holiday and email sat and queued for a week!

Happy New Year!

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 12:26:41 +0800
Chong Yu Meng <chongym at cymulacrum.net> wrote:

> Kurt Wall wrote:
> 
> >In a 1.5K blaze of typing glory, Net Llama! wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>On 01/19/04 17:01, Kurt Wall wrote:
> >>    
> >>
> >>>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.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >  
> >
> Hi Kurt !
> 
> Now that you mention it, I seem to recall some differences that were 
> mentioned to me many years back, when I was still working with hardware. 
> In 1996-1997 I was working for a company that was a reseller of DPT SCSI 
> and RAID cards. The main competitor back then was Mylex because it was 
> used in IBM servers. Adaptec was not considered much of a threat, as 
> they were mostly in the SCSI market then (how ironic !).
> 
> Anyway, the selling point for the DPT cards were : its superior 
> technology (the ability to do fast reads AND writes because of on-board 
> cache memory), and user-friendly utilities (i.e. Storage Manager) that 
> made setting up RAID a  snap.
> 
> DPT SCSI cards could be converted into RAID cards through the addition 
> of a card expansion module -- which was why I assumed that the SCSI BIOS 
> and RAID BIOS were equivalent. Probably this is not the case for Mylex. 
> You probably should not need to tinker with the hardware in any way 
> either. I'm thinking that probably you'd need the manual, and you're 
> probably missing a utilities diskette.
> 
> At least your current setup works, but no harm in knowing a little more 
> about the card, eh? I'd help you find the information you may need, but 
> we are only 2 days away from the Lunar New Year -- a major event in the 
> Chinese calendar where we have to clean the house, pay our debts, buy 
> new clothes, etc., so I'm going to be pretty busy.
> 
> Regards,
> pascal chong
> 
> 
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