On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 06:50:00AM -0500, o1bigtenor wrote:
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 4:38 PM, Lennart Sorensen < lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 10:33:49PM -0500, o1bigtenor wrote:
Greetings
Managed to buy a Dell poweredge 2950II server.
What an odyssey to set up the bios!!!
I have 2 drives I got with the machine - - - they were part of a Raid 5 array. Now there are only 2 drives (will never by a raid 5 array by definition) and I need some way of formatting them so that I can turn them into a Raid 1 array. (Its all hardware raid on this box.)
Anyone with any idea on how to do that to scsi drives when the controller won't let me change their settings and I have no other pox to put them in. (Connector is a wee bit different than for SATA!)
Certainly some raid controllers have an initialize option you can apply to disks to clean them so they can be reused in a new raid.
No idea which raid controller model you are dealing with.
Its a Perc 5/i if that helps.
Certainly if you check in the control-r setup and don't see PD count of 2, then there is a problem with the controller detecting the disks. If it does show 2, then it should be fixable. -- Len Sorensen