SmartArray on Precision 450

[CylonLove4Life]

How can I get Dell Precision 450 to boot a logical array configured on a HP SmartArray 6400 SCSI controller? I have a MegaRAID 500 and the system BIOS detects it and allows the system to boot to it. However, the BIOS cannot detect the SmartArray. Also, when I boot into Windows from an IDE harddrive the OS detects the SmartArray and creates windows volumes for the logical drives.

Any ideas. Thanks.

 

[rvnguy]

CylonLove4Life,

You are using some version of Windows form your post.

There is a utility in the HP Smart Array to set up the drive(s) as a boot device. You should be able to access this upon boot and when prompted pressing "F8".

See the link PDF file and direct your attention to ORCA Confifuration.

HP 6400 Users Guide
ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/products/servers/proliantstorage/arraycontrollers/sa6400-ug.pdf

Hope this helps

rvnguy
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