Ross Walker wrote:
On Nov 29, 2011, at 3:35 PM, m.roth@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?
Probably old news now, but in the PERC card's BIOS you want to import foreign config, save it and restart.
Ok, no one else was using one of the two I have available (most are now surplussed, so there's only a few left in service) is not being used at the moment, so I rebooted, and went into the firmware. Foreign was greyed out, unreachable, no matter what I did.
We're probably writing the drives off - there *shouldn't* be anything to be recovered on them, but I was just tryin' to be sure....
For my own amusement, I installed MegaCli 4, and am trying to puzzle my way through the lack of documentation, only the output of MegaCLI64 -?....
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