ServeRAID 3L and XP Pro?

[jrapp]

I have been fighting with this all day long. I have a Netfinity 5000 with a ServeRAID-3L card inside it. I have the drive setup like I want them (9.1 GB x 2, RAID 0), upgraded the firmware to 6.10, tried to specify the drive I have gotten from IBM (23k4684.exe) in setup, no luck. XP will not recognize that there are drives in the machine. Also, the drivers that I downloaded from IBM start at 4M/4Lx, is there a special one for the 3L, or am I out of luck? Help is very much appreciated. Thanks all!

Jeff Rapp
jrapp@nctc.net

 

[McDarwin]

Have you tried to auto-detect the controller during installation? I assume you had extracted the file 23k4684.exe into a diskette, unlike others do they will copy the file to the diskette.

IPSRAIDN is the drivers for 3L/3h/4h controllers, NFRD960 are for 4l/4m/4lx/4mx. It comes along in this diskette and is under powerPC folder. Looking at the txtsetup (open with notepad) file located in the root of the floppy this folders are not specified.

I haven't done this but you may try to add the lines pointing to powerPC folder to detect the controllers. I am not sure if you still need addtl arguments to point the drivers.

Good luck

 

[Kosmic]

Hi

Yes you can use it on Windows XP.

check this web page

http://w3.ift.ulaval.ca/~etche1/HowSXP.htm

bye