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<DIV>Got everything to work. The first thing I had to do was remove the
Adaptec 39160 and the drives and the promise raid card. Get everything
back to the beginning with the boot drive only. Once this was running
properly, then I installed the promise raid card and drives. Using the
Promise driver on a floppy, it was picked up okay and then I went about making
sure the module was loaded when the system was booted. After I configured
the drives I got the correct size for the raid (/dev/sda1).</DIV>
<DIV>Once this was running fine, I then installed the Adaptec 39160 SCSI
Controller card, we had a slight problem initially trying to get the card module
to stay loaded but this was resolved and now the system is setup the way I want
it. Took a little while but it's working great. Now to move data
from one server to another and retire the old (1 down and 4 to go).</DIV>
<DIV>I wasn't running cfdisk /dev/sda and this is why I wasn't able to see the
drives.</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks</DIV>
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<DIV>Jon L. Miller, MCNE, CNS, ASE<BR>Director/Sr Systems Consultant<BR>MMT
Networks Pty Ltd<BR><A
href="http://www.mmtnetworks.com.au">http://www.mmtnetworks.com.au</A></DIV>
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<DIV>"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure<BR> is trying
to please everybody." -Bill Cosby</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>>>> jturner@bsis.com.au 2:58:55 pm 9/03/2004
>>><BR>> Subject: [plug] Help request<BR>><BR>><BR>> I've
finally got the Promise FastTrak SX4000 installed in Suse<BR>> Standard
server 8 to load up on boot up and now I need some help<BR>> in getting the
drives (3 x 120GB) to work. What I have is a<BR>> RAID5 configuration
using the Promise utility now. When the<BR>> server boots it recognises
the controller and the drives and the<BR>> RAID 5. Then Suse loads and
recognises the controller card.<BR>> When I run cfdisk I see the 40GB WD
drive that we use as a boot<BR>> drive with about 6 partitions (hda1-hda7),
cdrom, and floppy.<BR>> I had a look on the web regarding setting up the
SX4000 and all I<BR>> see is the general setup of the controller card,
nothing about<BR>> getting the drives to show up. Does anyone have any
experience<BR>> in the area. In other words what's next?<BR>><BR><BR>Have
you installed the driver required for SUSE?<BR><A
href="http://www.promise.com/support/download/download2_eng.asp?productId=94&categ">http://www.promise.com/support/download/download2_eng.asp?productId=94&categ</A><BR>ory=driver&os=1<BR><BR>Once
the drivers are installed correctly you should be able to get<BR>information
regarding RAID status<BR>by 'cat /proc/scsi/FastTrak/0' from memory.<BR><BR>Your
IDE arrays should be available as /dev/sdx depending on
partitioning<BR>etc..<BR><BR>This information is based on my dealings with the
FastTrak100 TX2 under<BR>RedHat 7.3.<BR><BR>Hope this
helps<BR>Regards<BR>Jay<BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>PLUG
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