Re: Help with raid set up please

"david pierce" <> wrote in message
news:908227ac-1b15-4937-b015-...
> Hello all and thanks in advance.
>
> I have built a new supermicro server and am ready to set up the drives
> and operating system but need some detailed help please. I have read
> tons of articles and posts but cant exactly figure it out from them.
>
> I have a supermicro MB x7dal-e+0 with dual quad xeon processors, 8GB
> Ram, and I have one SAS backplane that holds (4) 2.5" hot swap drives
> that are 320GB and run at 10K which are connected to 4 of my SATA
> headers on the mother board. I also have an SATA backplaneThat holds
> (8) 3.5" hot swap hard drives which is connected to an SAS card that
> supports (8) SATA drives with Raid. My Mother board also supports
> raid. Now, I have 4 identical 500GB HD's (SATA) and four 320GB HD's
> (SATA) in that backplane. Both motherboard and SAS card came with CD's
> but no floppy drivers for raid. I can download the raid for the SAS
> card from Supermicro and create a floppy disk for that but there is no
> offer to down load raid drivers for my board?
>
> I want to set up (2) of the (4) 2.5" in raid 1 and use one of the
> additional for Ghost or something similiar and the last one as a
> spare.
>
> I want to use the (4) 500GB drives on raid 5 striped for database data
> and the (4) other 320GB as just drives, no raid.
>
> I am just not sure how to set this up in setup. Do I enter CMOS first
> and set up from there? Do I load operating system and hit f6, put in
> my floppy for my card, and go from that? Do I need to format all these
> drives first? I really just need some good directions to follow to do
> this if one of you would be so kind as I really dont want to do this
> 10 times on trial and error if you know what I mean.
>
> What do I need to do exactly in order to set this up?
>
> Also, I will be using Windows Vista Ultimate X64 as an OS, Running SQL
> 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 on this machine.
>
> Thanks so much,
> David
>
>
> Just reboot, all order will return!


There should be instructions from SuperMicro's site on how to use the
onboard RAID controller to set it up. During boot, after the POST, you
should see an option to get into the RAID controller, depending on the
manufacturer. For example, if I remember correctly, if it's an Adaptec, it
may be <ctrl + A>, and if it's an LSI Logic, it might be <ctrl + M>.


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