[GTALUG] Poweredger server question

Lennart Sorensen lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Mon Aug 17 21:38:12 UTC 2015


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.

-- 
Len Sorensen


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