XP on IBM x232

[jakeg81]

Hi,

During my install of XP on a IBM x232 xseries server, during the
partition choosing I noticed that all 4 of my 18.1 gig SCSI HDs were
listed. I formated disk 0 and XP installed sucessfully. Once I loaded
the disk management utilty, I notice the seperate disks there as well.

Am I missing a SCSI utility for win xp to setup the raid system,
because by the looks of it the system sees the HDs independantley. Am I
missing an obvious step to setup the system so that one HD is seen and
RAID is operational?

The device manager says I am using an Adaptec AIC-7899 Ultra160 PCI
SCSI Card

Thanks in Advance for any help.

 

[Admiral Q]

Hi,

During my install of XP on a IBM x232 xseries server, during the
partition choosing I noticed that all 4 of my 18.1 gig SCSI HDs were
listed. I formated disk 0 and XP installed sucessfully. Once I loaded
the disk management utilty, I notice the seperate disks there as well.

Am I missing a SCSI utility for win xp to setup the raid system,
because by the looks of it the system sees the HDs independantley. Am I
missing an obvious step to setup the system so that one HD is seen and
RAID is operational?

The device manager says I am using an Adaptec AIC-7899 Ultra160 PCI
SCSI Card

Thanks in Advance for any help.

If the SCSI card is RAID capable (consult the manual) then you should be
able to setup your drives into their RAID configuration with the set/BIOS
portion of the SCSI card itself, otherwise you're out of luck, as best I can
remember, WinXP does not support "software raid", only "hardware raid" aka
controlled by the hardware "SCSI or RAID controller itself". Then you'll
also need the SCSI card drivers on floppy disk, so you can load the drivers
(as I'm sure WinXP doesn't have a native copy) by hitting <F6> early on
while in the White Text on Blue of the character based portion of setup.