[CentOS] Dell R605 w/ Perc 6/i problem

[Jacob Bresciani]

this sounds like the right solution, you can do this either form the firmware or the megaraid command line tool MegaCli64 (MegaCli for non-64 bit systems)

On 2010-06-30, at 7:18 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote:

> 2010/6/30 mark <m.roth at 5-cent.us>:
>> Jacob Bresciani wrote:
>>> R605 is a power edge server model I think.The Perc6/i is a Dell rebranded
>>> raid controller, it's actually an LSI in disguise. Try downloading the
>>> Megaraid utilities from LSI and using them to see the status of the card.
>> 
>> Hmmm, I think I see the Linux/CentOS megaraid load as it comes up to the
>> install screen (before I get to look at partitioning).
>>> 
>>> Also, when you boot the R605, you should be able to get into the Perc's
>>> firmware for drive creation/maintenance. You might want to check there to
>>> see how it thinks things are configured and it hasn't decided the 750G drive
>>> is a hotspare or something (a hotspare wouldn't show up to the OS).
>> 
>> As far as I can tell, it doesn't think it's a hot spare. Using the firmware
>> configuration utility, it sees the physical drive, and that's it.
> 
> you need to export drive as jbod or raid0 if you want to use it on os.
> this is typical on hardware raid controllers.
> 
> --
> Eero
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