Just before Christmas I purchased an Adaptec ARO-1130U2 RAID add-on card for one of my computers which runs on a Chaintech 6BDU motherboard. The add-on card plugs into a proprietary RAID-Port II slot and takes over from the onboard SCSI controller. It will also do RAID modes 0, 1, 10 and 5 and handle four arrays so there is scope for modes 0 and 1 over multiple arrays etc.
The idea behind getting this board was to turn the machine into a server that will then attach to our broadband connection (when we get one) and run a web, mail, news server etc. Well that was the plan...
It's increasingly looking like the motherboard and the card don't like each other as the card doesn't get recognised each time the machine boots up. Even worse is that when it does get recognised it doesn't boot, it just hangs after finding the card.
I've tried the last two nights to get it working and Googling doesn't turn anything up, as only one other person has posted about this problem and that was in 1999! So it's looking increasingly likely that I will ditch the RAID card and just do daily and weekly backups and run the server that way. Bit of a pain in the arse really as I was quite looking forward to playing with RAID...
Posted by fatboab at February 04, 2005 12:25 PM
