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On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 03:06:00PM +0300, Yousef Raffah wrote:
> Why should I define it from the card's BIOS? Is it done through the
> system's startup (F9)?

IIRC for most of the Compaq RAID controllers you'll need the Smartstart
CD that came with the server.  A couple of the models I think can be
configured in the BIOS, _IF_ everything in the setup partition is there,
but that partition is usually on the array itself...

That's if it's a compaq server -- unfortunately the Compaq controllers
are real finnicky and don't like to work in non-compaq systems.  I've
had to resort to using a minimal NT4 install to configure one before.

Craig