[Cialug] raid arrays

[David Champion]

Did you try asking it "donde es el torito"?

Does the SmartStart CD boot on other systems?

-dc

Dan Hockey wrote:
> I tried it again and it gave me the same error...
> Retry EL TORITO.
> Retry EL TORITO.
> Hard stop.
> And that's were it crashs. What could be so hard about trying to boot from
> this iso? Could it be I used Nero to burn the cd? It booted from the windows
> install cd just fine.
> -dh
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf
> Of James Shoemaker
> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 11:13 AM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] raid arrays
>
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> Dan Hockey wrote:
> | Recently I discovered the hard way the disadvantages of a raid 0 setup
> when
> | the number six drive died in a proliant 5500. That was mistake #1.
> | Mistake #2-I started moving drives around and that's when I really screwed
> | things up. The smart-2dh controller that ran things now complains that it
> | can't find any drives and that it needs to be reconfigured. I found a scsi
> | port on board and plugged the drives into that, after messing around for a
> | while, I know I have five good drives.
> | After googling around for several nights now I've figured out that need
> | something called a smartstart cd with all the setup utils on it. Thanks to
> | HP's rearranging of their web site all of the promising links I find no
> | longer exist. I did find an ftp that had smartstart-5.50-0 but after
> several
> | tries it appears to be a scrambled iso that doesn't work.
> | I did manage to reinstall 2k3 on one drive using the onboard
> controller and
> | windows now gives out individual drive letters for each drive. I'd like to
> | setup a mirrored raid but its looking like I can't with the onboard
> | controller.
> | Should I toss the smart-2dh and use thing better or keep looking for the
> | software to set it up right?
>
> ~  I probably have a smartstart CD image that would work for you...  Or
> just download it from:
> http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lan
> g=en&cc=US&swItem=MTX-597d7cb6b45d493285e27c1412&prodTypeId=15351&prodSeries
> Id=327479
>
> James
>
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