Re: Need help installing OS6 on Dell PowerEdge 2600 with PERC4/Di RAID

jboland@xxxxxxx wrote:

On 15 Mar, 13:35, "Steve M. Fabac, Jr." <smfa...@xxxxxxx> wrote:

However, the documentation with the driver is incomplete and omits
very important hardware configuration information. Without that
setting in the controller card, you can build raid configurations
with the controller bios all day long and none of the drivers will
work. The letter with the driver should be updated to flag this
controller bios setting.

Since this was a used machine and when I first booted it, Windows 2000
server login screen appeared, I accepted that the hardware is working
and all I did was delete the RAID5 configuration and reset to RAID1
before trying to load SCO. Three days later....

Steve,

What is the setting and I will add it to the TA.

John

The Perc4/Di was set in BIOS to I2O mode. Windows 2003 was happy
with that. The magic fix is to set the controller to "mass storage" mode.

After I made that change, I booted the OS6 CD and loaded all the drivers
I had downloaded: Perc from Dell, mega from SCO, and another version of
PERC from Dell. The installation then identified the card as mega,
and the installation finished without further problems.

I did not test your statement that OS6 will recognize the PERC 4 without
additional HBA drivers, I was just happy that OS6 was loading. I left for
the evening with the installation running, planning to return the next day
to complete the migration.

Interesting: Disk performance is much better in RAID1 with the mega driver then
I experienced when I set the controller to LSI (SCSI) mode. The MP2 patch
took 30 minutes to install in LSI mode and only 10-15 minutes in RAID mode.
--

Steve Fabac
S.M. Fabac & Associates
816/765-1670
.

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