Recent content by sphinx1611

mostly just for storage.

i have been doing some reading and i am glad that i have because i was going to reconfigure and reinstall the o/s. i have read about the raid 0 and 5 and right now i have raid 5 which is what i think is best for what i need it for. i thank you all for you advise and input. if not for this site i...

so what you are saying is that i did it right?

woo hoo. finally got it. had to change the config to boot from the hard drive.(duh) still not too sure about the array of the hard drives though. i have 5X18.2 gig. hard drives and the C: drive is only showing 56 gig. ??? i don't think i defined the array quite right. this is all new to me so i...

would this apply to my netfinity 5600 server too?

well... i've been sitting here all day tring to install anything. i tried windows 2000 server and got a little further. i used the servraid support cd to define the array- all ok. installed the 2000 cd and booted up, installed the raid drivers(f6) install found a hard drive and said that it...

the first time i tried that i found a driver on the ibm website and tried to install it but it said that xp has a better version. i tried to install it anyway and i am still looking at the same thing.

i have 5 18.2 gig hard drives installed in the front of the server and i can use the fdisk from the win98 diskette. i did this with my laptop before i installed xp pro and it worked fine but this server is a different issue. i don't have much experience with servers. so i turned to the experts. haha

i have recently aquired an ibm netfinity 5600 8664 3ay server from a dealership. this piece has been decomisioned but never"opened up". i have been trying to install an operating sytem (xp pro)but it keeps telling me that there are no hard drives installed. i am starting to get a little...