I got a pretty cheap IBM Netfinity 5000 recently. it's gonna be used as a fileserver, so I decided to use RAID 5.
This machine has a ServeRAID 3L controller and 3x18.2 GB drives (I have one spare drive that I'd like to use as a hotspare, but atm i don't have a tray for it).
My RAID experience so far is limited to some standard onboard software RAID.
I managed to set up the array, then initialize, sychronize and finally partition it.
The win XP installer successfully loads the 3L drivers (from floppy), lets me choose the partition and actually copies the installation data to it, but after the first reboot, nothing happens.
The controller is in the first slot (which comes first in boot order, even before the onboard RAID controller), the partition is set active, I disbled all other stuff.... but it won't boot from the array.
What's wrong?
Do I have to initialize the array AFTER synchronization or what?
I'm really stuck.
This machine has a ServeRAID 3L controller and 3x18.2 GB drives (I have one spare drive that I'd like to use as a hotspare, but atm i don't have a tray for it).
My RAID experience so far is limited to some standard onboard software RAID.
I managed to set up the array, then initialize, sychronize and finally partition it.
The win XP installer successfully loads the 3L drivers (from floppy), lets me choose the partition and actually copies the installation data to it, but after the first reboot, nothing happens.
The controller is in the first slot (which comes first in boot order, even before the onboard RAID controller), the partition is set active, I disbled all other stuff.... but it won't boot from the array.
What's wrong?
Do I have to initialize the array AFTER synchronization or what?
I'm really stuck.

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