NAS 1500s / DL100 Update to Latest Service Release 6.6

[peyrache]

tried to destroy raid under bios setup
an restart QR
JYP

[Darrin Addams_1]

The QR will restore to the factory default and as there are only three model variants, all of which are shipped with all four drives, isn't there a possibility that the QR disk is simply expecting four drives rather than just two?

[Rolf_10]

Can anyone definately confirm that for QR to work it needs 4 hard drives (in whatever configuration)?

second question: why is service release 6.2 needed before applying service release 6.6? Doesn't SR 6.6 contain the SR 6.2 contents?

Regards
Rolf Pfotenhauer

[peyrache]

it's depends on DL100 models
from quickspecs for DL100 disk configuration
supported by QR

Four (4) Hot plug 1" 7200 RPM SATA Hard Disk Drives standard

4 x 80 GB (320 GB Model)
4 x 160 GB (640GB Model)
4 x 250GB (1TB Model)

for DL100G2
Internal Storage
Front loading, hot plug, 7200 RPM SATA Hard Disk Drives

4 x 250GB (1TB Model)

4 x 500GB (2TB Model)

2 x 160 GB (3TB & 6TB Models) (For O/S Only)

about SR upgrade there are some issue from 5.6 to 6.4 , i can work or not
so better to do in 3 steps
hope to help
JYP

[Rolf_10]

By saying (in my case 1TB Model)
... DL100 disk configuration supported by QR

Four (4) Hot plug 1" 7200 RPM SATA Hard Disk Drives standard
4 x 250GB (1TB Model)

This tells me only what the maximum that is supported.

What I want to know is, do all 4 drives need to be installed to support QR?

[peyrache]

yes because QR create raid1 on 2 first disk
for system partition and Raid1 on two last for spare partition system and create a data
partition on 4 disk in remaining space in raid5
is it clear ?
JYP

[Rolf_10]

For the benefit of anyone else reading this, this is how the Disks are arranged on a 1500s as I undertstand it.

QR Disk Assignments
===================
Disk #0 - RAID1 (Primary system partition) + RAID5 (Data partition)
Disk #1 - RAID1 (Primary system partition) + RAID5 (Data partition)
Disk #2 - RAID1 (Secondary system partition) + RAID5 (Data partition)
Disk #3 - RAID1 (Secondary system partition) + RAID5 (Data partition)

[peyrache]

right, this is also documented in management/user guide
JYP

[Raymond Pinkerton]

As a bye the bye on this matter I have two 1500s/DL100G1 devices running with 4 x 1Tb Seagate disks.

Procedure I followed was to use the Recovery DVD as normal to install the device, this completes successfully.

When this has finished it creates and configured the two 9Gb arrays and an other funny sized array (about 350Gb) as drive F:. I downloaded the Adaptec Storage Manager (ASM) software and installed this onto the device. I've used both the orignal and the latest 4.10 versions of ASM successfully, Adaptec's web site says the 2410 is not supported by the 4.10 version but it worked fine for me.

I then removed the large partition in Windows and then deleted the array in ASM. Maximum partition size is 2Tb so to use all the space I created a 720Gb Drive F: and a 2047.441Gb Drive G:.

Devices seem to work fine, boot into either OSs fine but I did have to add the drive letters for the manually created arrays in the second copy of Windows but other than that all was cool.

Hope this is of interest.

Cheers

Ray

[cliffie]

The ability to use the QR cd involves making sure that the sata raid card has the correct BIOS installed. If the bios on the sata raid card has ever been updated, the QR cd will fail to function because it cannot recognize that raid card.