Norman Schklar wrote:
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:23 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Norman Schklar wrote:
Seems I need to disable RAID, but don't find the option in the bios. 4ea 1 terabyte drives in raid 10 is the current setup.
From what I read, I need to disable the onboard raid and let Centos do the work.
Ok, I missed the beginning of this thread. Is it currently using Intel (aka fakeRAID)? If so, it's *not* in the BIOS, but rather you have to watch as it comes up, before it gets to the CentOS boot. You'll see something that tells you to hit <ctrl-something>, and in there, in the firmware, you'll disable it.
Note that if you do, I believe that everything will be gone, and you'll have to rebuild or restore. I don't *think* software RAID will recognize what the fakeRAID left, though I could be wrong.
This was the first of the thread.
This is a new install, so nothing to lose. Centor 6.4 doesn't find the drives. I use Ctrl E, to open the raid console but it doesn't have an option to disable. So each time it boots I get the raid init. Not sure how you tell if it's FakeRaid. It is using LSI drivers. I think what I want to do is stop the raid and use Centos management. But can't find where to stop the raid. There may be a better solution, but what I've read so far says to disable the on board raid.
Oh. You're using LSI? What's the hardware card? I don't think fakeRAID, the Intel on-motherboard thing, uses them. If you've got a *real* RAID card in there, then you *should* use it - you don't need the software RAID.
For that, what you need to do is to create logical drives - follow the steps, chose the type of RAID, etc. in the firmware. *THEN*, once you've created the logical drives, when you reboot, the systems *will* see them as though they were physical drives.
Does what I'm saying make sense to you?
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