IBM X346 onboard RAID1 features enable and Win2003 system installation Notes _ server Other

Purchased a few years ago, the installation of Win2003 system, the hard drive has not been made into RAID1, as two separate hard drives to use. In order to retain the partition at a later time when you reload the system, you do not use the random navigation disc for the boot installation, but instead you use the WIN2003 installation disk to boot the installation directly. At that time was found a 3.5-inch floppy disk, the random navigation CD in the SCSI drive into the floppy disk, with the Win2003 installation disk to boot the machine and press F6 from the floppy disk load driver, successfully completed the follow-up work. In the future, direct CD-ROM boot to DOS, with Ghost system backup and recovery, and desktop as convenient.

Recently because of business needs, the need to two pieces of 146G hard disk into RAID1, because the previous in a variety of brands and models of the machine has done, never met any special situation, did not expect this time still quite a bit of trouble, the following is the general process.

1. The first is the original data backup, restart the server, into the on-board setup program, the two hard disk into a RAID1 array. This is done in accordance with the conventional method, the interface also has related hints, it is worth mentioning is built RAID1 time is very long, the general machine is a few seconds, this machine will take more than 1 hours.

2.raid1 after doing a Win2003 installation disk for boot installation, the original SCSI driver with NLite integrated into the Win2003 CD-ROM installation, the hard drive can not be found.

3. Download the latest drive from IBM Chinese website and English website separately, use NLite integrated to win2003 installation CD, not recognize hard drive when installing. The address is Http://www-900.ibm.com/cn/support/download/driver/detail? docid=frog-6je67z and Http://www-947.ibm.com/systems/support/supportsite.wss/license?location=ftp.software.ibm.com &filename=system_x/ibm_dd_a320raid_3.00.00.63_windows_i386.exe&root=/systems/support/&brandind= 5000008&lic=y.

4. The drive is then used to boot the server with the serverguide7.03.6 CD containing the SCSI driver, which identifies the hard disk and can perform zoning operations. Press the prompt to change into WIN2003 disk, the system automatically copies the installation file and restart, start WIN2003 installation, in the prompts the user to press F8 to continue before the screen appears blue screen panic.

5. In order to verify the hardware of the machine and the availability of the Win2003 installation disc, restart press CTRL + A to cancel the RAID1 from the RAID setup program, Either the serverguide7.03.6 CD and the Win2003 CD-ROM or the single integrated SCSI-powered WIN2003 installation CD-ROM, both of which can be properly installed win2003. It came to the conclusion that the drive provided on the website and serverguide7.03.6 discs was not available after the machine was set to RAID1.

6. Then call 800 for help, the other is very business, machine insurance, not technical support. Later an IBM product sales company's technical staff suggested that we are not a lot of the machine is not insured, then the first use of the machine to ask for technical support, the first to cheat IBM 800 phone over there at the beginning of the woman to answer the phone, let her call the engineer, And then in the process of consulting questions to the X346 drive. Helpless, had to try, to bite the bullet to cheat the woman, did not expect the engineer to be very agile, product insurance, not discussed.

7. A request was made on the Internet, and finally a kind-hearted person appeared in Nanjing, the long miles by e-mail sent to drive, they have used in the past, should be available. After receiving is an executable program, run after decompression drive to floppy disk, only to floppy disk, can not choose the decompression path. Then using the software to simulate the memory of a floppy drive, decompression drive, with NLite integrated into the Win2003 installation disk. The machine is back to RAID1, but the hard drive is not found when installed. The other side prompts that they were previously loaded with a floppy disk.

8. As the passage of the world, the market has been difficult to buy floppy disk, and the machine on the floppy disk drive is not available or not sure. So find a U disk, volume production into a 1.44M floppy drive, this process a bit of trouble, to find the available USB disk master chip, not all the main control support virtual floppy drive. Drive copy into the U disk in the virtual floppy drive, F6 loading, installation success.

9. Back to the previous integration into the Win2003 CD-ROM drive separately into the virtual floppy drive test, found that RAID1 is not available, did not do RAID1 is available. It seems that the 5th inference is basically correct, and can be sure that the friend sent to the driver is correct, but may not be standardized, so the nlite can not be properly integrated, although the integration process NLite did not error.

10. At the same time, a lot of collection of many Zhang Serverguide disk, both 7.x, and 8.x, one on the server to conduct the pilot test, found that only serverguide7.4 can support RAID1, others are not.

11. Then the integration of the RAID1 can be used to drive and integrated CD-ROM file analysis, found that the problem in Txtsetup.oem this file, nlite not the driver file in the complete and correct conversion of the parameters, and write to the installation file, a total of less than 20 lines. So in the installation file for manual modification, correction, re-carved plate. The test installation is normal.

12. Find the hands commonly used in a WinPE, this is the XP kernel, has been modified to produce usb-cdrom and normal use, the online download a lot of WinPE in the use of normal after the CD, the amount of postpartum is not normal work, to make certain changes. will just RAID1 drive integration in, this is not used nlite, basically manual operation, the specific method is not much to say.