[CentOS] megaraid/PERC

m.roth at 5-cent.us m.roth at 5-cent.us
Tue Nov 29 21:09:01 UTC 2011


Craig White wrote:
>
> On Nov 29, 2011, at 1:35 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>
>> I've got two drives from a now-dead server, they were RAIDed, a mirror,
>> I'd assume. I need to see if there's anything on them I need to transfer
>> to the replacement, so I just shoved them into another Dell server, with
>> a PERC 5 controller - I think that's what the dead one had. I fired up
>> MegaRAID storage manager... but can't see any way to tell it to recreate
>> that RAID. Anyone done this?
> ----
> I wouldn't waste the time with MSM - I would simply use the BIOS
> configuration for the RAID storage which can easily look at the drives for
> RAID configuration and load it if it can find it.

Sorry, let me give my conditions a bit more: I don't think I can reboot
the server - I believe it's currently in use as a development machine by
one of the teams, so I can't play around with it.
>
> That said, I would suspect that the RAID controllers would have to be
> identical
>
I believe it's the same kind of controller, so that's ok. I'm using MSM
for the above reasons, and that the cli isn't installed.

Playing with this thing, I believe I want to create another drive group,
not just add another RAID to an existing one, which just seems as though
it could get really ugly. But when I click on the controller, I can then
get to "Go To" -> controller, which will let me create a new virtual
drive, but drive group is all greyed out still. Further, I don't see
anything that would let me investigate what the documentation seems to
call a "foreign RAID".

Hope that gives y'all a better picture of my environment.

        mark





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