I finally got my SX6000 back. I was a bit worried when I saw that the serial number on the card they send me back was the same one as the card I shipped them. After contacting them, they explained that they assigned the new card the same serial number as the old one. Go figure… I installed it in my dual AthlonMP box and rebooted. To my great surprise, I managed to boot in WinXP and it detected the card. It couldn’t get the drivers but I downloaded them from the Promise web site and installed them manually. I then installed the PAM (Promise Array Management) utility. It couldn’t see the array. I shut down the PC, swapped the order of the Adaptec 29160 and the SX6000, and configured a new 6 disks RAID5 array. It then had to initialize it. Everything went well at the beginning but it then kind’of blocked at 10%. It stocked there for over 2 hours. I lost patience. I rebooted, erased the RAID5 array and build a RAID0 array, just for testing, instead because I know it didn’t need initialization. After rebooting, I formatted the array using the Disk Management tool of XP. The first 10% went well but then at 10% the throughput fell to 0 on my performance meter. Then the rest of the formatting went very fast and it paused for a long time at 100%. All along this phase the card emitted regular beeps like when it was initializing my RAID 5 array. In the Disk management utility, it labelled the disk as missing. I still can’t find my array using PAM. "Preliminary benchmark" of this array gives me about 36MB/s throughput. I haven’t tweaked anything; I just got this number through the Performance meter (Physical disk, Disk Bytes/sec)
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