On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Lennart Sorensen < lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 10:39:54AM -0500, o1bigtenor wrote:
This last bit of information was what enabled me to finish my system setup.
So - - - procedure followed:
1. Ctrl R to get into the RAID utility 2. Use Ctrl-N to get to the Virtual Disk page 3. Move cursor to the line (controller) that has the word 'foreign' in it. 4. F2 will then take to where it asks if you want to initiailize and something else that I have now forgotten.
With the initialization one can now set up a new array (in my case a RAID 1 (for data security)).
So thank you all for your various tips and assistance - - - I now have a server with 6 disks running OpenMediaVault.
(Now if there just were someway to get this ancient BIOS to recognize discs of great than 2 TB in size and if there were a way to update the BIOS without needing to run MS windows things would be real real good!)
http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/Drivers/DriversDetails?driverId=16... says you can get the PE2950-020700CBIOS.exe file and put it on a USB bootable key with DOS (freedos should work) and use that to flash the BIOS.
Pretty sure unetbootin can create such a thing for you.
Oh goody - - - something else to figure out! Dee