[GTALUG] Server issues and questions

[David Thornton]

I have some questions, ideas, and suggestions.

Is control r required to configure the raid?

Is it that you can't "catch" the control r ? Is it that it goes by too
quickly?

Is the drive detected?

Is the drive connected to an on-board raid card or an add-in card?

Is the drive SAS or sata?

You could try installing on a different non raid disk. Then use the vendor
tools to access and configure the raid card using the user space tools.

David

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015, 4:58 PM Digiital aka David <digiital at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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