Netfinity 5500 HELP

[cybervex]

I inherited a Netfinity 5500 w/5 9.1 gig drives. The drives were in a box. I saw no jumpers on any of them so I put them in.

IBM ServeRAID Adapter BIOS
Ver:2.80.03

<< Press <Ctrl+I> for MiniConfig Utility >>

Initializing Adapter Number 1
Power on self test can take 59 seconds...test passed
Drvie Configuration can take 5Min 59seconds...test passed
Firmware Version 2.86.03
No logical drives found. None are installed
nonDisk SCSI devices found: Tape:0 CDrom:0 Removable:0 other:0

BIOS not loaded no devices found - Installation stopped

Could someone point me in the right direction on getting this thing running.

Thanks in advance

Jay

 

[rclarke250]

Go into mini config and set up an array, then load the OS.

 

[ABS3]

got to the IBM download site for Raid support -

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-39723

run this utility to set your RAID config and then load the OS as you would normally. Update the bios here -

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4LXJQF

This is the location for the Netfinity 5600 drivers and software. Good Luck, Man

 

[catorze]

Step 1 - remove the jumpers you installed. The SCSI backplane in the server handles SCSI IDs, etc.

Step 2 - Update the ServeRAID code. To give you some idea how out of date your code is, the current version is 7.x and there are several HDD firmware updates that have been released since ServeRAID v2.8 (about 16 releases). Download the current version of ServeRAID, build the CD and boot to it. It will flash the controller and launch the software to configure the controller (right-click and restore to factory defaults as a starting point). Then you can create an array.

rclarke250, you cannot create an array from the mini config. Do your homework!!!