New Netserver Installation w/ NetRaid controller

[John M Tse]

I have a new LC2000 server (to be installed with NT) that is being put together from scratch and was wondering about the following.

I have 2 9GB Non swappable drives (boot drives)
4 36.4 GB hot swappable drives (data / application drives)

We plan on implementing a Raid 5 using a Netraid-1M controller. I was puzzled about two things:

01) With four swap drives do I need to dive them into two set in the swap cage, two in ConA and two in ConB or since I am using a seperate Raid controller this does not matter.

02) What cable is suppose to be plugged into the RAID controller card. Do I take the cable from the on board scsi to hot swap cage and
plug it into the RAID controller instead?

03) Should I just leave the RADI controller off first and install it later after I can boot and configure the server and if so how does the cabeling work again.

Thanks

John T

[Theo Hill_1]

01) You are coming from the netraid controller, there should only be one connection on the back of the cage. You should just connect the cable straight from the netraid controller to the back of the cage. The two SCSI connectors are just that, SCSI controllers only, no netraid available on them, so just connect your common tray HDD to these.

02) Yes, the cable from the onboard SCSI should work on the netraid controller.

03) It's easy to install the netraid controller during the initial install. Just make sure you skip the mass storage detection, and specify the driver from a the driver floppy. You will also add the IDE driver from NT, and the SCSI driver for the onbaord controllers. You should do this all at this time.

[Stefan Grenda]

Hi John,
it's NOT recommended to use the onboard cable (yellow cable) since it's just an UW-SCSI cable. It's recommended to use only LVD-cables on the new controllers. Also make sure that you have the newest firmware on the hdd's and the raidcontroller.