OT: Mylex problems

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Sun Feb 3 23:13:45 2002

Right now he just wants a striped pair. The problem is that the controller is
in conflict with other system plug-n-play resources, hence external features,
notably interrupts, don't work.

I've set up a couple of other MYLEX boards from the same series, albeit not
just single-port versions like this, and not under Windows. I've used Unix,
LINUX, and Unixware with 'em and they were pretty satisfactory.

What I need, if there is such a thing, is the ability to "FORCE" a set of
resource assignments onto the board. It seems to be at odds with the system's
resource assignments.

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doc" <doc_at_mdrconsult.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 2:42 PM
Subject: Re: OT: Mylex problems


> 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 - 23:13:45 GMT

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