Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > Everyone, > > I was recently given a Dell raid 386 server that had drives that had > gone bad. I replaced the drives with a couple terrabyte sata Seagate > drives, and set up the bios for a mirrored raid configuration. > > I was able to install Centos 5.2 without difficulty, but when it was > time to perform the 1st boot it went to grub instead of booting off of > one of the mirrored drives. > > I could not figure out how to boot through grub, so I changed the bios > to look at both drives unmirrored. At that point I was able to boot to > one of the drives, and the second drive was not mounted. > > The raid logic is within the bios and mother board of the Dell machine. > Can any of you point me to some literature about making this system work > as a mirrored raid system. > What model Dell server is this? Surely, this isn't a 386 (16 to 40mhz from circa 1989?!?) What Dell RAID controller model does it have? They are pretty much all called PERC something, but there are many generations. Is this a true raid (controller based, with a battery backed write cache), or a bogus soft (fake) raid setup? if its the latter, I'd set it up with linux native raid, and not use the BIOS raid at all