[GTALUG] Poweredger server question

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 06:50:00AM -0500, o1bigtenor wrote:
> 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!)

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