And for what it's worth I really like freenas which is a bsd based Nas solution that has a single sqlite3 file as its config and is meant to be run off a USB key .... so that all of your drives can be "data drives". It has a Web gui. Has some cool plug-ins like dockers and sick beard. And best of all it uses zfs , the Cadillac of filesystems IMHO. I've been running on it reliably for a couple of years now. David On Wed, Nov 11, 2015, 7:30 PM David Thornton <northdot9@gmail.com> wrote:
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
On Wed, Nov 11, 2015, 4:58 PM Digiital aka David <digiital@gmail.com> wrote:
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
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