-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 John R Pierce wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos If you are using PERC, it is simply not compatible with Linux, and should never be. It is a terrible piece of hardware. I would recommend using dmraid. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkn2Xb4ACgkQe0Ain3PYkIZ1DQCfbgStHfKvFWomot4adeiFLc6p IuYAoI/5sODJBICm/ak1IzfB5U9uCdGB =Q51i -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----