OT: Mylex problems

From: Doc <doc_at_mdrconsult.com>
Date: Sun Feb 3 15:42:51 2002

On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Richard Erlacher wrote:

> A friend has come to me with a problem I don't seem to be able to solve. He's
> got a couple of Seagate ST32550W drives and a Mylex DAC960PD PCI controller, a
> single-channel type, that just doesn't want to "see" the drives attached to
> it. I've verified that the drives work using a different controller, and the
> diagnostic software from Mylex seems to suggest that the board itself thinks
> it works OK, up to the point at which it is supposed to "see" attached drives.
> That's where things fall apart.

  I have one. Although I've never tried to set it up in Windows/NT/XP,
and it's been a while since I played with it. Is he trying to set up a
mirrored set, or run JBOD? ISTR that the firmware has to bless the
drives before the OS can use them, even in JBOD mode. He'll need the
configuration diskettes as well as the OS drivers. I also STR that the
firmware version is critical to OS support. I _know_ that versions 2.73
and prior used one EPROM and 3.xx has two. I hadda have 3.xx burned to
run Linux on it.
  It's a Dell favorite, which should tell you that it's very solid, has
good GUI management tools, and is dog-slow. Give it all the cache RAM
you can.
  If you need firmware images & configuration diskettes, let me know.
If I can't find the links again, I know I burned them on CD. *Which*
CD, I ain't sure.... ;o)

        Doc
Received on Sun Feb 03 2002 - 15:42:51 GMT