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(a)mdrconsult.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)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