[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!)
> >
> > 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.

Certainly if you check in the control-r setup and don't see PD count
of 2, then there is a problem with the controller detecting the disks.
If it does show 2, then it should be fixable.

-- 
Len Sorensen