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Post by lightspeed on Jun 2, 2009 21:24:52 GMT -5
I remember see something on the other Netcell site (www.soft-port.dk):
"Q: Support for partitions over 2Tb James M wrote the following question: Do you know if these cards support a volume/partition over 2Tb in size? I have 2 of these cards and just purchased 5 750Gb western digital sata drives and want to make one large partition. I tried and it seemed to create the array fine through the initial set-up before booting, but when I get into windows (2003 server), I only saw a drive that was 698Gb in size??? It was set up as raid 3 automatically since I used all 5 drives.
A: I got this answer from a former NetCell employee. Yes, the card should work. I have a video server set up with 5 - 500 GB SATA drives. However, I believe that Windows XP home has a 2TB file system limit (2^32 512 byte sectors)."
Unless I'm wrong Sever 2003 is 32-bit system. I hope this helps.
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Post by lightspeed on Jun 2, 2009 21:13:50 GMT -5
Issue #1: Every time I boot (and I do mean every time) the second drive (port 1, logic array A1) switches to logic array A2. The system will continue to boot and after the OS boots the storage manager fixes (I assume) the logic array back to A1 because by the time I can start up the storage manager the second drive is on A1. This would not seem like much of a problem, but the system appears to lock up after an hour or so of running if I do not fix the array during the boot. Issue #2 will have to wait untill tomorrow.
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Post by lightspeed on Jun 2, 2009 20:44:17 GMT -5
Ok here is the system. It is a old IBM Netfinity 5000 with 1G of ram and two 550 mhz PIII. The OS is XP with SP3. I do not have very many programs loaded on the system just enough to just watching DVDs. Along with the IDE-DVD player there is a XFX GF (GeForce) FX 5200 PCI video card. The SCSI raid system was pulled out and replaced with a PNY (Netcell) SPU5103 5-port 32-bit PCI controller card with two Samsung 1T drives both set up as raid 0 on separate logical arrays. I flashed the controller card with a newer firm ware from v1.7.1.1 to v1.7.6.1. I tried v1.5.3.5. (which I would prefer) but after flashing the system would lock up right after the Netcell menu during boot-up. Next post will be the system issues.
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Post by lightspeed on Jun 2, 2009 14:47:35 GMT -5
I have two 1T drives on an old IBM server. I am having a number of issues with the system. I will provide a full detail post on the issues and system if there will be anyone able to respond to this post.
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