Would like some help for my storage router

[Midorica]

Since almost a year passed since I moved that router to my room and I really don't have a clue on how we use it.

 

I have the Fibre cables and the pci-e cards to run it but i'm stuck at the part when it comes to hard drives and using them on windows.

 

It's a HP Network Storage Router m2402 with 2 SCSI bay and 2 Fibre bay , the power supply is running perfectly fine and the ram got tested to be sure it wasn't dead.

 

If anyone could help me out about the hard drives and adapter required to use it , it would be nice

 

 

[KTFO|SGTmoody]

Hi.

I'm going to start with its purpose. You may allready know but you may not...

This is a scsi to fibre chanel router and is designed primarily for backups over the Internet or a lan. HP and other manufacturers provide scsi pice cards for connecting storage servers togeather as it's a better and faster way of transfuring large amounts of data fast.

This just converts that scsi storage protocol and media in to a routerable connection

OK. So to use it. You will need another pc and a scsi pcie card along with the correct scsi cable which I think is a scsi HD68 cable

You then need to out the fibre chanel NIC in your pc and connect the router and pc togeather using a OM1 or above lc to lc multimode fibre cable

Remember to get the RX and TX facing the correct way. RX = receive port TX = transmit port

So you plug the TX in one side so that the other end will plug in to the RX

Next thing to do is connect your pc to the router using its RJ45 management port (right hand side of bottom picture)

You will have to figure out how to reset it if you can't log in. Best to download the odd manual for the device and follow the first setup procedure as this will tell you its default ip and subnet so you can connect to it. One connected you will have to use its Web management to configure the router.

I wont explain this here as I can't look it up right now but if you have managed to get hold of the manual it should tell you what to do.

If you haven't already got the scsi card you will need to find one that's compatible with a computer and will allow you to use your hard drives. You probably won't be connecting the hard drives directly to the pcie card so it's likely to see it on the motherboard or a supported raid card.

At this point I want to emphasise the word supported as these technologies are designed for very specific environments and devices so they would never have been built with the average joe's desktop in mind. They are built or $10,000 storage servers and the networks to support it. (price when this wasn't outdated) so you need to choose your pcie cards carefully.

For example my 4GB Fibre chanel cards are not supported on my crosshair V motherboard but they work in all my enterprise servers.

This is what a scsi pcie card is if your not sure (I'm not recommending it, it's just an example)http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/products/scsi/asc-29320lpe/

Any questions let us know

[Midorica]

For the SCSI card , I had one somewhere in my stuff which would do the trick and i also have the fibre card which works on my H8DME-2-LS006 without problems.

 

The only problem will be to find the hard drives at the moment but I think i can manage this.

 

Anyway , I'll let you know if I can get this to work !

 

 

Thanks for the help

[Midorica]

Umm... it seems that I am stuck when it asks for a serial cable to initialise the router since I don'T know which kind of DB9 cable I need...

 

It says : The DB-9 connector provides a serial port that is compliant with the EIA 562 standard and is RS-232 signaling-level compatible.

 

My server can use DB9 but which kind of cable must it be or where can it be bough?

 

Edit: Nevermind , I was able to get through the interface with the ethernet cable using 1.1.1.1 and default username/password.

Time to find hard drives!