[Cialug] raid arrays

[James Shoemaker]

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Dan Hockey wrote:
| Recently I discovered the hard way the disadvantages of a raid 0 setup
when
| the number six drive died in a proliant 5500. That was mistake #1.
| Mistake #2-I started moving drives around and that's when I really screwed
| things up. The smart-2dh controller that ran things now complains that it
| can't find any drives and that it needs to be reconfigured. I found a scsi
| port on board and plugged the drives into that, after messing around for a
| while, I know I have five good drives.
| After googling around for several nights now I've figured out that need
| something called a smartstart cd with all the setup utils on it. Thanks to
| HP's rearranging of their web site all of the promising links I find no
| longer exist. I did find an ftp that had smartstart-5.50-0 but after
several
| tries it appears to be a scrambled iso that doesn't work.
| I did manage to reinstall 2k3 on one drive using the onboard
controller and
| windows now gives out individual drive letters for each drive. I'd like to
| setup a mirrored raid but its looking like I can't with the onboard
| controller.
| Should I toss the smart-2dh and use thing better or keep looking for the
| software to set it up right?

~  I probably have a smartstart CD image that would work for you...  Or
just download it from:
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=US&swItem=MTX-597d7cb6b45d493285e27c1412&prodTypeId=15351&prodSeriesId=327479

James


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