[GTALUG] Server issues and questions

[David Thornton]

And for what it's worth I really like freenas which is a bsd based Nas
solution that has a single sqlite3 file as its config and is meant to be
run off a USB key .... so that all of your drives can be "data drives".

It has a Web gui. Has some cool plug-ins like dockers and sick beard. And
best of all it uses zfs , the Cadillac of filesystems IMHO.

I've been running on it reliably for a couple of years now.

David

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015, 7:30 PM David Thornton <northdot9 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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