[GTALUG] Poweredger server question

o1bigtenor o1bigtenor at gmail.com
Tue Aug 18 11:50:00 UTC 2015


On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 4:38 PM, Lennart Sorensen <
lsorense at 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!)
>
> 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.

Dee
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