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!)
That would be SAS. SAS controllers can run SATA disks, but no the other way around.
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.
Well here is a handy video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5lGWdvJyS4 It seems you hit control-r to enter the raid setup when prompted, then in there there is a PD management tab (PD = physical disk I suspect) Looks like control-n is how to change tabs. I found a page that says if you see 'foreign' config present, then you can hit F2 on the controller on the VD management page and ask it to clear that. -- Len Sorensen