Ghost Proliant Dl380G3 Smart5i array controller

[Darrell Rudolph]

Good Morning,

Tech question for you. I need to rebuild a Raid 5 array on an HP DL380G3 server. I want to boot from a floppy and image to an IDE drive temporarily until I can rebuild the array and copy the image back.

I will be using Norton ghost for the images.

Do I need a dos driver for the smart5i array in order to access it for the image creation and replacement?

if so where can I find drivers.

[sandeep_raman]

Hello Darrell,

Not too sure if you could image from a scsi disk to an ide.

SRH

[Darrell Rudolph]

Actaully only placing a copy of the image to IDE as the I need to take the SCSI drives offline to create a new Raid 5 array with proper block sizes (currently set to 16k)

[sandeep_raman]

Is changing the stripe size the reason to backup/restore?

When you say placing a copy of the image to IDE, does it mean that you have already used a imaging software,created a backup and just want to copy the image file to the IDE disk?

SRH

[Darrell Rudolph]

Hi, I have the server currently in operation. I want to take the current Raid 5 array and ghost it to a temporary diskdrive for backup. I then will recreate the array with a larger block size (prob 128K) and then restore the image back to the new array. Array size will be the same.

I was planning on using a DOS boot disk to do the imaging since I have ghost 8.2 on a floppy i use for desktop system imaging.

Has anyone tried this and made it work?

[sandeep_raman]

Well, i have seen the dos driver for smart arrays and am looking for it(will take sometime though).

Btw,have you checked ACU and there's an option to change the stripe/block size to 128Kb which does'nt require a rebuild.

If its not just this,let me know what exactly it is.

SRH

[NSK]

You dont need a driver for ghost to see the drives. As long as the BIOS can see them, ghost can also.

We ghost these drives all the time using a network boot floppy. The only driver we need is the NIC driver.

[e4services]

As far as I know you need the Smart drives for DOS to access the logical drive, to be loaded on the GHhost boot disk and Config.sys

[e4services]

http://h18023.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/download/7599.html?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN

[Darrell Rudolph]

Thank you for the responces.

1. I have not checked the ACU, I will to see if it can be done.

2. I have been told that because ghost backsup the blocks, that when I do a ghost restore it will restonre the old block sizes as well. True or False?

3. Thanks for the DOS drives pointers.