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

Dee
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