On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 08:00:26AM -0400, Anthony de Boer wrote:
> o1bigtenor wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 4:38 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > > No idea which raid controller model you are dealing with.
> >
> > Its a Perc 5/i if that helps.
>
> Ah yes.  Those.  It Might Be Dead.
>
> (A past gig had a lot of Dell servers, an annoying number of which were
> suffering from dead RAID controllers and/or remote consoles, while the
> IBM, HP, and Sun hardware generally just kept working.)
>
> However, the various hardware RAID controllers I've had to deal with
> always had a BIOS screen (usually a pause during boot telling you hit
> some key combo to enter RAID config) and you need to get into that to
> tell it to forget the old setup and usefully configure (mirror, stripe,
> or JBOD) the drives it has now.  This will also confirm it does actually
> see them.  After that's done, it should present its virtual drive(s) to
> the OS.

Apparently the Perc 5/i can't do JBOD.  The standard work around appears
to be to create a 1 disk RAID0 on each drive and use those as the disks.