World: r3wp

You did that part?

I wasn't able to tell the controller I wanted to setup raid 1, it 
only allowed me to say "volume"

The controller support raid?

yes ..

Nothing about "mirroring" which is what raid 1 is?

http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/product/proddetail.html?sess=no&language=English+US&prodkey=ASR-2120S&cat=%2fTechnology%2fUltra320%2fUltra320+RAID

the only "array type" listed is "volume"?

volume' looks like it would be the first listed type but that field 
should be changable

Should also have Raid 0 1 5 10 and 50

can't change the field.. the tech guy says the card is smart enough 
to know that I have a drive initialised from a diffferent controller.

and it was a mirror before correct?

no.  I got the server with only one drive .. raid card and other 
drive on backorder.

So, installed win 2003 server on the first drive and used it till 
the raid card arrived.

You might need to backup the data somewhere and rebuilt a complete 
new array and restore

yeah .. that's what he told me.

But it's not what the manual says

Yeah I have seen where we were able before to blow out the disk ordinals 
and rebuld them into an array but I'm not sure of the integrity or 
capability of that card in doing it

Adding the Controller to an Existing System
In this scenario, you are adding an Adaptec SCSI RAID 2120S/

2200S controller to a system that already has a Windows 2000 or XP
operating system.
To install the driver:
1 Install and configure your controller and hard disk drives
according to the instructions in Chapter 2.
2 Start Windows. Windows launches the Found New Hardware
Wizard, which searches for the controller driver.
3 Insert the driver disk you created at the beginning of this
chapter. Select the disk drive as the source, then click Next..
Since the driver is also on the installation CD, you may wish to
insert the installation CD and have Windows search it for the
driver. Windows will find multiple drivers, select the
appropriate one for the operating system being used.
4 Click Next in the succeeding two windows that appear and
follow the on-screen instructions to complete the controller
installation.
5 Remove the driver disk and restart the system.

on step 2, it just reboots the PC forever.

You doing all your configuration from inside windows?

never got to boot up Windows

You might try from CTRL-A at boot up when the SCSI bios message apears

keeps recycling.

I can configure the raid card using ctrl-A

Yeah that is what you need to do

I think I'll bite the bullet and backup, rebuild the array, reinstall 
Windows 2003, and then restore :(

Yeah do the backup regardless but I would suggest before you go further 
than that - that you try and clear the NVRAM of the card and wipe 
the disk config and rebuild both and try not to initialize unless 
it forces you to.  Then fail the second drive and see if you can 
rebuilt it then.  But get the backup first.

how to clear the nvram?

When I say wipe the disk config there should be an option to write 
config to disk in the utility and that will do the wiping of the 
disk config.

ok, I"ll look at that tonight.

The utility probably has an option to clear its configuration

Just remember this.  That is usually write a config to the disk itself. 
 This is how it knows what slot or position the drive is even if 
you move them around.  But the NVRAM is on the card and usually backed 
up by battery power to retain the configuration (you need to blow 
that away).

no battery so I'll just remove the card.

Hmm..

Ahhh that one has an (optional) battery module.

That means it completely using the config of the drive and thats 
why it detects it automatically as a volume.  You most likely wont 
be able to change that then without a special tool from them since 
you would need to force a write to the drive config to show that 
its drive 0 of array 0.

I'll see if I can see if they have some tools I can download.

Good luck.  I know how frustrating that can be.

how long has the latency been running on the mailing list.  I posted 
earlier and my post still didn't show up.

I posted yesterday morning and nothing so far.

We need Selma back.  Selma was better than this.

It may not be ecartis but their mail server that is the problem.

Selma had her off days too:

http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/ml-display-message.r?m=rmlHFFB
Or, as Graham suggests, it's RT's mail server

my message reached the list at http://mail.rebol.net/cgi-bin/mail-list.r
but didn't get out again back to me.

I lost one yesterday too, in the same way.

It all seemed to be working okay for a week or two, but is slipping 
again now.

Anyone have rebol highlight files for PSPad?

I'm playing around with mediawiki .. a great little wiki.  Even has 
preferences for your time zone so that you can see when edits were 
done according to your own local reference.

Would be great if such a wiki could be done using Magic.

I've questioned this a few times over the years now.. 

If we have a CGI script that uses the mysql protocol, is it necessary 
to load this protocol with every cgi request?  Wouldn't that add 
some burden to the server?

you probably have a pool of connections which are re-used