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SmartStarting a Proliant 1600
I've just picked up a Proliant 1600 (dual PII 400MHz) to build up as a
firewall for a friend. It's got two 9.1GB drives in it and the first thing I did was do a system erase on it and started doing a manual install for Linux. The odd thing is, nowhere can I find where to set up the array controller. I put in the date, etc. and tell it to get ready for Linux, it does the F10 installation, then the next thing it tells me is that it's ready to install the OS and to remove the SmartStart CD. On running SmartStart again, nowhere in the options is there anything for setting up the array controller. WTF? Where did it go? When you boot the system, it detects the controller board on Bus1 and the drives on ID0 and ID1 and spins them up, gives their type, so I assume the hardware is working correctly. Can anybody tell me what I'm missing? I've built several systems up by now on various models of Proliant without a hiccup, but this is my first 1600. |
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SmartStarting a Proliant 1600
sounds to me like you dont have an array controller.
When the system Posts, do you see any kind of smart array controller init and show you X number of logical volumes? Or, does it simply say: ID0: Compaq xxxx 9.1GB ID1: Compaq xxxz 9.1GB .... If it looks like the above ... you have no array controller. - LC "." wrote in message om.au... I've just picked up a Proliant 1600 (dual PII 400MHz) to build up as a firewall for a friend. It's got two 9.1GB drives in it and the first thing I did was do a system erase on it and started doing a manual install for Linux. The odd thing is, nowhere can I find where to set up the array controller. I put in the date, etc. and tell it to get ready for Linux, it does the F10 installation, then the next thing it tells me is that it's ready to install the OS and to remove the SmartStart CD. On running SmartStart again, nowhere in the options is there anything for setting up the array controller. WTF? Where did it go? When you boot the system, it detects the controller board on Bus1 and the drives on ID0 and ID1 and spins them up, gives their type, so I assume the hardware is working correctly. Can anybody tell me what I'm missing? I've built several systems up by now on various models of Proliant without a hiccup, but this is my first 1600. |
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SmartStarting a Proliant 1600
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SmartStarting a Proliant 1600
Are you planning to build a firewall from scratch? Perhaps using Debian
as a base? Or do you plan to use a package like IPCOP? I am curious about the ability of either to handle Array Mirroring. I know that IPCOP has SCSI support (unlike my good buddy Smoothwall), but I believe it is limited to supporting a single SCSI hard disk. Also, for a firewall, your two 9.1G drives will be an overkill...a single 4.3G drive will be more than sufficient. Jeff |
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SmartStarting a Proliant 1600
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