On 2/18/2010 9:59 AM, John Doe wrote: > From: John Hinton<webmaster at ew3d.com> >> Go to the HP.com website and download the SmartStart CD for your system. >> This has everything you need to configure the raid. The raid on these >> machines is a 'hardware' raid running through a proprietary raid card. >> It is 'extremely' robust. However, you must use the HP SmartStart disk >> (or perhaps there is something else from hp/compaq?) to configure your >> raid. The raid card in that machine most likely has a battery on it to >> allow protected write caching. Very speedy. The battery is used in case >> of power outage... the data still gets written. > > It is a model 1xx Proliant... so no SmartStart or Firmware Maintenance CD... With Adaptec controllers you usually hit control-A when it tells you during the boot process. If you have more than one the timing can be a little tricky but there is a several-second window after each prompt displays. If it is the same aacraid that IBM uses in some models it is a good hardware raid controller and worth the trouble to figure out if you are going to add multiple drives in a raid configuration. On the other hand, with a single drive you might as well use the onboard scsi. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com