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Netfinity 5000 raid won't boot
OK... Well lets talk about missing something. It would be nice if IBM would maby just mention that you MUST Low-level format the drive with the DOS ServeRaid software first (spent 3 dyas looking on the net and reading PDF files for ServeRaid and no mention of this anyware). If you don't do this... -
Netfinity 5000 raid won't boot
Well, That is how are servers boot. They load dos and then load Netware (Netware has the raid driver loaded) All I did to setup our other servers was to Fdisk and format, the only difference is that I did not do the raid setup from scratch. So If it looks like I am doing this wrong, How do I... -
Netfinity 5000 raid won't boot
Just so you all know what exactly I have done and in what order. All 3 drives were low-leveled using the plainer scsi on the N-5000 (removed 3L and turned on plainer scsi to do the LL format). Now this is what I did after that, feel free to call me an idiot if I did any thing wrong in the... -
Netfinity 5000 raid won't boot
I may be wrong about the CD version (txt file said version 7.00) but it did update to 7.10.18 and FW to 6.10.24. As for booting I Fdisk and format to boot to command.com IBM PC-DOS 7 as it is faster than formating and installing dos until I get the boot problem solved. The system just sits there... -
Netfinity 5000 raid won't boot
I changed some drives in one of our servers nad re-created the raid 5 using serveraid boot cd ver. 7.00. It updated my bios to version 7.10.18 and my Firmware is 6.10.24. Now that the logical drive is created, fdisked and formated it won't boot from the raid. I think I need to go back to a lower...
