[olug] Proliant RAID utilities

[neal r]

  Brian is right on for the 6000 - get the smartCD and your life will be
easier.

  If any of you are wrestling with older gear - like dual pentium pro
200 Proliant 1500s, drop me a note - I've already fought those things to
a standstill - I have several running as email servers and they're rock
solid once you get them configured.




Brian Roberson wrote:
> 
> What you want is the smart start CD for your box, you can download the iso on the hp/compaq support site
> 
> That will let you setup all your hardware and your raid controller/etc prior to OS install.
> 
> Let me know if you cant find it, I have quite a few copies at work.
> 
> On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 02:12:03PM -0600, Jay Swackhamer wrote:
> > I've put a question out to a person that supports compaq servers to see if
> > he has the software readily available..........or how to access/setup the
> > controllers..........
> >
> >
> > > I've recently aquired a Compaq ProLiant 6000 with dual Xeons and a Compaq
> > > 3100ES Raid Controller.  The disk management utilities appear to have been
> > > wiped along with the OS.  I've been able to install Slackware 9.0 by
> > > loading
> > > the raid.s kernel and partioning a single disk, but I'd really like to get
> > > at
> > > the RAID stuff.
> > > This is my first experience with a Compaq RAID controller.  Is it handled
> > > through firmware on the box, or is there a utility CD or floppy that is
> > > loaded at boot?  Do any OLUGers have such utilities that I could arrange
> > > to
> > > get a copy of?
> > >
> > > Thanks in Advance.
> > >
> > > DT
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