Greetings On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 6:30 PM, David Thornton <[email protected]> wrote: > I have some questions, ideas, and suggestions. > > Is control r required to configure the raid?
Yes. > > Is it that you can't "catch" the control r ? Is it that it goes by too > quickly? No, just that the control R key sequence is not accepted by the bios - - - so one can't go into the array control and do whatever. > > Is the drive detected? Yes. > > Is the drive connected to an on-board raid card or an add-in card? > Its an add-in card. Changing it isn't very cheap and changing it to something that would be fairly up to date is sort of pricey. (I was offered a fairly new server (refurbished) at a fairly good price that would be cheaper than the new hardware raid board.) > Is the drive SAS or sata? > SATA. > You could try installing on a different non raid disk. Then use the vendor > tools to access and configure the raid card using the user space tools. > There is no way to install a hard drive that isn't controlled by the hardware raid controller. Thanks for the ideas. Wish I knew something about the bios - - - Dell's information assumes that everything is working. I'm wondering if a dead battery on the raid controller might be the issue. Don't really know how to find out though! Thanks again!! Dee --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
