On 5/26/2018 3:15 PM, Dave Wade via cctech wrote: > Folks, > > > > Well in case any one has the slightest bit of interest, I have now plugged > the RAID card back in and after replacing on of the drive carriers I can get > five of the six drives to spin up. Its now copying stuff to my Buffalo NAS > but as its 10Mbit LAN its not terribly fast. I think the NAS isn't very fast > either. It looks like zipping up the files and FTPing the ZIP files might be > the quickest way to go. > > > > Dave > > > > From: Dave Wade <[email protected]> > Sent: 18 May 2018 22:31 > To: 'Benjamin Huntsman' <[email protected]>; 'General > Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts' <[email protected]> > Subject: RE: Restoring a PC Server 500 P/390 > > > > I thought I had captioned that picture. It's the original RAID controller > which I am not using. If I plug it in it starts the disks in the RAID array > which takes ages, and steals the hard disk BIOS vector which I need for the > SCSI card that's running the system. > > I didn't want to remove it fully as I need to label the cables feeding it. > One feeds the top drive bays, and the other the bottom so if I ever need to > put it back it I need to know which is which. > > If I get some free time I will have a go at starting the disks in it and > repairing the RAID array, and perhaps copy the disks that are installed. > > > > Dave > > > > > > From: Benjamin Huntsman <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > > Sent: 18 May 2018 21:49 > To: Dave Wade <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >; General > Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: Restoring a PC Server 500 P/390 > > > > I gotta ask, what's the deal with the dangling card? That cracked me up! > > > > Thanks for posting some pics! > > > > _____ > > From: cctalk <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > on behalf of Dave Wade via cctalk > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > Sent: Friday, May 18, 2018 1:46 PM > To: 'Guy Sotomayor Jr'; 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts' > Subject: RE: Restoring a PC Server 500 P/390 > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Guy Sotomayor Jr <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > >> Sent: 15 May 2018 21:39 >> To: Dave Wade <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >; > General Discussion: On-Topic >> and Off-Topic Posts <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> >> Subject: Re: Restoring a PC Server 500 P/390 >> >> >> >>> On May 15, 2018, at 1:29 PM, Dave Wade via cctalk <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > >> wrote: >>> >>> >>> That's, in effect, what I did. Whilst there were Microchannel IDE > Controllers >> I have never seen one. There are no IDE interfaces on the "Planar" so > every >> thing must be on the MCA bus. >>> So I bought a BusLogic BT646 SCSI card on E-Bay. I also bought an > Adaptec >> card as a spare. I think I struck lucky with the BT646. It is a simple > SCSI/2 card, >> no raid but it does have a BIOS with support for two bootable drives and a >>> 4GB drive option. >>> OS/2 has drivers for it so it works out of the box. The OS/2 boot disks > find >> the drive and install the proper drivers. >>> To compensate for the slower "narrow" drives I bought a SCSI2SD card > that >> puts an SD card on the bus. OS/2 just sees it as a up two four drives >> depending on how I configure it. At present I have two 4gb drives. The > card >> in it is 32gb so I can add 2 x 12gb drives or 1 x 24gb or some other mix. > The CD >> ROM sites on the same bus. I haven't tried the tape drive yet.. >>> >> > > > Well I found an XGA2 card in the pile of bits so now I have 1024x768 display > resolution. I have swapped the CDROM for a SCSI DVD drive. > > I managed to boot MTS and there are a few pics here:- > > https://flic.kr/s/aHsmc1pkB1 > > > <https://flic.kr/s/aHsmc1pkB1> > > <https://flic.kr/s/aHsmc1pkB1> P390 > > flic.kr > > Explore this photo album by Dave G4UGM on Flickr! > > > > > next job is to tidy up and re-assemble the case.. > > Dave > >> Some time ago I acquired a PCI P/390 card (along with the various LIC > files). I >> went down the same path as you to build a P/390 system with OS/2 but I >> kept running into problems with OS/2 versions and supported hardware. >> >> I finally gave up and acquired a PCI based RS/6000 that I'll install AIX > on and >> have an R/390. ;-) I haven't had the time yet to make any progress on > it. >> >> But it's good to know that you've managed to do this if I decide to go > back >> and attempt the PC route again. >> >> TTFN - Guy > >
I used Clonezilla to make an image of my PCI machien with a P/390E card to a USB drive - but in your case that would, of course, require it to recognize your RAID array (which it just might, if the BIOS recognizes it).
