I have a great x460 server doing lots of devel. work and I need 5 usb2 ports added for web cams. I tried a lot of pci (2 card edge slots) cards and none are recognized by the server bios (shows nothing in the slot in the bios) so are hidden from my Ubuntu 10.04lts os. Same card was plug and play...
Well the 3 1tb Western Digital drives I'm using I'm sure are not supported by IBM. model #WD10TPVT. Should I look for firmware updates from western digital? Or not bother. The drive that did go bad was making a very bad buzzing noise and clicking loud (for a laptop drive). Sounded like a head...
Yes I downloaded the 8i cdrom. The server has both 6i and 8i cards installed so it was an honest if not dumb mistake on my part. As far as the driver aacraid kernel module I'm just using the native Ubuntu one that comes with my kernel and closely watched to boot from 8i kernel loading to desktop...
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!! :)
The firmware cd was a snap and yes the firmware was very old. Updated the firmware and upon rebooting found the new drive that was replaced and all is well. By the way I was referring to it as the 6i it was an 8i my bad...
Anyway did I say THANK YOU :)
In an established raid level 5 if I disable "syncing" in the 6i controller using the boot time config will that damage my raid data in anyway?
By the way thanks for the reply....
I just setup a raid 5 using a 6i serveraid pci-x card with 3 1tb wd sata drives. All was perfect till one month after setup a drive fried luckily I had a new spare when plugged in the yellow rebuild light came on and after 2-3 days it was done and the yellow light went out for that drive. Now...
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