-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. - --Bob. On 17/08/15 07:48 AM, Brent Kimberley wrote:
‎Using the service tag, go to support.dell.com and read the manual(s), drivers, firmware etc. Press control C or R at boot up to access the raid config. Don't forget to check / upgrade the firmware.
From: o1bigtenor Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2015 23:33 To: GTALUG Talk Reply To: GTALUG Talk Subject: [GTALUG] Poweredger server question
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!)
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