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Technical User
I know nothing about raid or how to use it beyond the philosophy of what it is for (ie-storage/backup).i have acquired an hp netserver lf, with 4 physical Disks in it. there are a couple of problems:
1. first off, the raid controller is not installed (or there isn't one on the mother board or in a PCI slot--what does it look like on the motherboard?)
2. second, i don't think the software is installed (or even present on the machine, for all i know)
3. last, it might not even have BIOS installed, and i don't even know if that has anything to do with RAID.
basically this is what i know: the computer has netware installed but NW must be started manually from the DOS prompt. i am trying to install redhat on it and after the first few install screens i am given an error that linux CANNOT DETECT ANY DRIVES TO WRITE TO, at which point the whole thing shuts down and goes back to dos.
so i have to make raid work to access the drives to install linux. is that right? how does one go about doing that?
thanks,
M.austin
1. first off, the raid controller is not installed (or there isn't one on the mother board or in a PCI slot--what does it look like on the motherboard?)
2. second, i don't think the software is installed (or even present on the machine, for all i know)
3. last, it might not even have BIOS installed, and i don't even know if that has anything to do with RAID.
basically this is what i know: the computer has netware installed but NW must be started manually from the DOS prompt. i am trying to install redhat on it and after the first few install screens i am given an error that linux CANNOT DETECT ANY DRIVES TO WRITE TO, at which point the whole thing shuts down and goes back to dos.
so i have to make raid work to access the drives to install linux. is that right? how does one go about doing that?
thanks,
M.austin