I have some questions, ideas, and suggestions.
Is control r required to configure the raid?
Is it that you can't "catch" the control r ? Is it that it goes by too quickly?
Is the drive detected?
Is the drive connected to an on-board raid card or an add-in card?
Is the drive SAS or 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.
David
Are you trying to setup your own 'nas' or a distro thats has been setup for NAS usage? I'm running OpenMediaVault on a HP Micro server.Sorry can't answer you directly on that box.---On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 4:47 PM, o1bigtenor <o1bigtenor@gmail.com> wrote:Greetings
I have been trying to set up an older Dell poweredge 2950II for use as
a NAS box (and possibly some other things.
Running into a problem. I used one hard drive from the array for some
much needed other purpose for a few weeks and now when I wanted to put
it back into the server well there are problems.
I can't get the bios to accept the '<ctrl> R' input.
When in the PD Mgmt area when I use F2 to get into the hard disk area
I can make the front panel light blink (or not) but I cannot get any
other of the functions to highlight. The cursor just doesn't want to
move!
So - - -
Does anyone know how to kick the bios in the seat of the pants to get
the hardware raid to work?
Other option - - - drastic and expensive is to remove the 32GB of ECC
ram in the box and setup a
new server box. (I don't want to do this but if the other one won't
work - - - well I need something that will!)
Ideas - - - suggestions - - - - please?
TIA
Dee
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