On 12/6/2013 12:04 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote:
BIOS... Now when you mention it, I didn't see any message on the screen at POST from the raid-card. Don't cards like these usually throw a message about setup, raid status, found harddrives etc during POST. This one didn't.
the megaraid bios is nasty complex to use. and maybe you got a card without it ... you're really better off booting linux from a CD, net, whatever, to shell and using megacli. of course, megacli doesn't /come/ with linux, so you have to get it, and make it available to your standalone linux of choice (the centos installation boot at a linux single will do, if you can access media with megacli on it.
and yes, as has been said before, megacli is a rather messy complex command line. I found it much easier to understand when I stopped using -'s on all the options (the - is optional) and stopped using camelcase, then the commands are less messy. I ended up making my own cheatsheet of common megacli commands formatted that way