Hi,
Many Thanks this is very helpful, but I stay on my hunger.
I have the same problems with a same RAID card with 2 chips with silver heatsinks on it, however mine is a 3.1 xserve (2009).
* The 3 drives light up when i start the machine and i can see a green light (always light on front each disk) but unfortunately the blue leds never light on and no flash.
** You said:"
An easy option to check the server would be to install 10.6 or Lion on a USB stick and start the server up for it by plugging it in and holding down the ALT key when you power on the server. From the system profiler you should be able to see if it recognises the RAID card (Hardware RAID) and also if it passes it's diagnostics test.
-I did it, the RAID card (Hardware RAID) still not recognized ! Owever I found something... (really not sure is helpful?) when i'd used the 10.6 osx install disk, in the menu utility the RAID Utility.app is present, when i try it he said: "Apple RAID hardware card is not installed on this machine !?"
- I did it too to boot 10.6 or Lion on a USB stick and start the server up. This way running RAID Utility.app the message is: "Waiting for Apple RAID Card"... Instead of ... "Apple RAID hardware card is not installed on this machine !?"... I waits long long time me too, in case of message saying "Arf...Bingo ! Apple raid card found !"...
Then, when OSX is on, the system profiler cannot be able to recognise the RAID card (There is no Hardware RAID installed on this machine)...
-Because i have an old one xserve (2008) without any RAID card inside, i know that the RAID Utility.app is never installed in these configurations hardware !!! So in the RAID one xserve does it means that the RAID card is recognize and then finally ... Not !!!???
-Do everything to go crazy?
-And here you add:"
... and also if it passes it's diagnostics test."
-I don't know how i can read "if it passes it's diagnostics test." Any help in this ? Thank you very much !
It is very unfortunate that PhunterIT did not respond to complete the history of this post. (Since 2015).
There is about ten days that i am looking from there or out there to find anything else goes the way for that. But, is there still someone down here? This forum is he abandoned?
Thousand Thanks by advance.
jean
Wow I do not know what to do to get me out and that's the first time this has happened!