On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 10:54 AM, Bob Jonkman <bjonkman@sobac.com> wrote:

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If there's a hardware RAID controller it may need its battery changed
(if it has one). Some RAID controllers keep the config in NVRAM, so
/dev/zero may not help that much. If the drives are recognized by
the OS it may be better to use OS RAID, and eliminate the dependency on
potentially flakey, unreplaceable hardware.

You have found the problem - - - the OS does NOT recognize the drives at all.

If I could have found the hard drives from the OS I would not have bothered using

hardware RAID - - - prefer the software RAID myself and have been using it for

a while so am somewhat comfortable with it.

Dee