On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 08:00:26AM -0400, Anthony de Boer wrote: > o1bigtenor wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 4:38 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > > No idea which raid controller model you are dealing with. > > > > Its a Perc 5/i if that helps. > > Ah yes. Those. It Might Be Dead. > > (A past gig had a lot of Dell servers, an annoying number of which were > suffering from dead RAID controllers and/or remote consoles, while the > IBM, HP, and Sun hardware generally just kept working.) > > However, the various hardware RAID controllers I've had to deal with > always had a BIOS screen (usually a pause during boot telling you hit > some key combo to enter RAID config) and you need to get into that to > tell it to forget the old setup and usefully configure (mirror, stripe, > or JBOD) the drives it has now. This will also confirm it does actually > see them. After that's done, it should present its virtual drive(s) to > the OS.
Apparently the Perc 5/i can't do JBOD. The standard work around appears to be to create a 1 disk RAID0 on each drive and use those as the disks. -- Len Sorensen --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
