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Netfinity 7000 drives me crazy!
Greetings to all,
I am on a border line of engaging in a phisycal contact with 60kg server, but it is simply driving me crazy. The whole thing is about IBM Netfinity 7000, 4x PPro 200 MHz 512kb cache, 512MB RAM, 5x Seagate ST34572WC @ Serveraid II controller. Originally, machine came with 4 drives, of which one was defunct. I replaced defunct drive, added new one and attempted to load IBM ServeRAID Support CD downloaded from IBM site. Linux started to load, however, it halts when it gets to "Initializing X server". So, i never got to the end of that initialization (dots keep appearing, i left it for an hour and no effect), so i tried updating my firmware. To my big joy, only one floppy image (out of 4) has sensible content (autoexec.bat, imbdos.com and stuff), so i made 4 disks (disk 1 is ""IBM ServeRAID BIOS and Firmware Update (1 of 4)" diskette for the ServeRAID- 6M controller"), and lived in belive that i might get a prompt for other disks. However, program that has loaded made an firmware upgrade without my agreement, however, claimed that it did it successfully. After restart, panic... First of all, i get several (around 8, for what i've counted by pressing pause key) of "boxes" where it says classic (but same every time) bull**** (IBM ServeRAID BIOS, Copyright... BIOS Version: 6.11.07) and prompt for entering in Mini-Configuration Program. To my surprise, that configuration works perfectly (drives and tape are recognized and all informations are shown), however, after that nothing happens. I cannot enter BIOS nor continue with booting process. I am all puzzled, from being unable to boot ServeRAID Support CD to strangely updated firmware. If anyone can help or give me an advice, i'd appriciate it. FuT set to alt.comp.hardware... -- Kupio sam pistolj od svercera na crno, Na tebe cu rado da potrosim zrno... |
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Netfinity 7000 drives me crazy!
Bubba's log on stardate 21 lis 2005
First of all, i get several (around 8, for what i've counted by pressing pause key) of "boxes" where it says classic (but same every time) bull**** (IBM ServeRAID BIOS, Copyright... BIOS Version: 6.11.07) and prompt for entering in Mini-Configuration Program. To my surprise, that configuration works perfectly (drives and tape are recognized and all informations are shown), however, after that nothing happens. I cannot enter BIOS nor continue with booting process. Little update: ServeRAID works perfectly (no more loads of "BIOS ID boxes") in my other machine (good bless CM Stacker...), vice versa, i put a 39160 in Netfinity and it also works perfectly. This fact (that i can now continue to boot normally from CD/floppy) still hasn't solved the problem with booting ServeRAID config CD... Furthermore, i tried RAID config CD-s on my other computers, works perfectly on every one of them, except on that ones i don't get "You passed an undefined mode number" prompt. That concerns me, to say the least, so i hope i gave a bit more insight to someone who has already experienced such problems. Once again, i would appreciate any help given. -- Kupio sam pistolj od svercera na crno, Na tebe cu rado da potrosim zrno... |
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