Hello all,
I bought this server and wonder if someone could help me getting the SCSI HDDs to work with the on-board RAID controller.
The server comes with 2 X 4.51 IBM Drives. I have just purchased 6 X 4.2 HP drives on e-Bay and was told that they should work with any server.
I have downloaded the softwares (ServeRAID 6.1.1) to configure the RAID controller; however, it does not seem to recognize the HP drives at all. Is it true that this particular server will only work with 4.51 IBM drives or 9.1, 18.2 etc... The 4.2 is considered incompatible with it?
I made the the assumption that all SCSI drives should work with this server. I hope that I am wrong as these drives are not returnable!!
I have no problem configuring the 4.51 IBM drives and managed to load Win2000 as well. I used 2 X 4.51 and 1 X 9.1 as the hot spare and every thing seems to be functioning OK.
I checked the IBM website but did not find anywhere showing that this server will support 4.2 drives.
Thanks...
I bought this server and wonder if someone could help me getting the SCSI HDDs to work with the on-board RAID controller.
The server comes with 2 X 4.51 IBM Drives. I have just purchased 6 X 4.2 HP drives on e-Bay and was told that they should work with any server.
I have downloaded the softwares (ServeRAID 6.1.1) to configure the RAID controller; however, it does not seem to recognize the HP drives at all. Is it true that this particular server will only work with 4.51 IBM drives or 9.1, 18.2 etc... The 4.2 is considered incompatible with it?
I made the the assumption that all SCSI drives should work with this server. I hope that I am wrong as these drives are not returnable!!
I have no problem configuring the 4.51 IBM drives and managed to load Win2000 as well. I used 2 X 4.51 and 1 X 9.1 as the hot spare and every thing seems to be functioning OK.
I checked the IBM website but did not find anywhere showing that this server will support 4.2 drives.
Thanks...