[GTALUG] Server issues and questions

[Digiital aka David]

Are you trying to setup your own 'nas' or a distro thats has been setup for
NAS usage? I'm running OpenMediaVault on a HP Micro server.

Sorry can't answer you directly on that box.

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 4:47 PM, o1bigtenor <o1bigtenor at gmail.com> wrote:

> Greetings
>
> I have been trying to set up an older Dell poweredge 2950II for use as
> a NAS box (and possibly some other things.
>
> Running into a problem. I used one hard drive from the array for some
> much needed other purpose for a few weeks and now when I wanted to put
> it back into the server well there are problems.
>
> I can't get the bios to accept the '<ctrl> R' input.
> When in the PD Mgmt area when I use F2 to get into the hard disk area
> I can make the front panel light blink (or not) but I cannot get any
> other of the functions to highlight. The cursor just doesn't want to
> move!
>
> So - - -
>
> Does anyone know how to kick the bios in the seat of the pants to get
> the hardware raid to work?
>
> Other option - - - drastic and expensive is to remove the 32GB of ECC
> ram in the box and setup a
> new server box. (I don't want to do this but if the other one won't
> work - - - well I need something that will!)
>
> Ideas - - - suggestions - - - - please?
>
> TIA
>
> Dee
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