[TriLUG] Raid array

[Jon Carnes]

Did you initalize the drive first?  You have to run the RAID bios and setup 
the RAID drive, then initialize it.  Once that is done, RedHat should be able 
to see the drive as an ordinary scsi drive.

I played with an Adaptec 3200 a while back and dumped it for a Mylex (now 
owned by Adaptec...).  The old Mylex worked a thousand times better.  Later, 
Adaptec came out with a BIOS upgrade for the adapter.  Perhaps that would 
have fixed the corruption problem I was seeing with the RAID drive.

Good Luck - Jon
 --- Original Message: Wednesday 27 March 2002 03:16 pm ---
> I have a server I am building right now and I have a rack mounted raid
> array chassis with three drives that I want to hook up to it. The RAID card
> I will be using is an Adaptec SCSI RAid 3200s.  BTW there are 4 drives in
> the server and three in the array.
>
>
> Here is what happens.  As I load RH 7.1 it recognizes the hdd in the server
> which are hooked to the mother board scsi interfaces, but not the hdds that
> are hooked to the  array chassis which is hooked to the RAID card.
>
> The vendors said i have the right harddrives for the array, so I am
> thinking I must be missing some driver or some configuration.
>
> Has anyone tried something like this before?  Is there a Linux doc or
> RedHat doc that gives good detail on this?
>
> JoJo
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