[GTALUG] Poweredger server question

[o1bigtenor]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 10:54 AM, Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com> wrote:

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> 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.
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You have found the problem - - - the OS does NOT recognize the drives at
all.

If I could have found the hard drives from the OS I would not have bothered
using
hardware RAID - - - prefer the software RAID myself and have been using it
for
a while so am somewhat comfortable with it.

Dee
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