On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 9:04 AM, Lennart Sorensen < [email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > Well - - I would not have thought of that. As I wanted 4 discs on a Raid 10 and 2 on a Raid 1 I think I am happy with how things have worked out. Now if this system craters then I do know that the next purchase will be a little different. I like the processors in this box but the bios is a royal pita and some of the other decisions make by the system designers choices do leave something to be desired. Thanks for the help and information! Dee
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