[CentOS] Dell R605 w/ Perc 6/i problem

Tue Jun 29 22:14:08 UTC 2010
Agile Aspect <agile.aspect at gmail.com>

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 2:36 PM,  <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
> I think there was just a thread 'bout this, and I didn't pay attention...
> and then I walked into our smallest server room to rebuild a server with
> CentOS... and that's what it is. The problem I'm having is this: there are
> two 1T SAS drives, raided, via the controller. There's also a 750G SATA
> drive. The Dell test suite sees it, and reports that SMART says it's fine.
> However, no matter what I do, the BIOS doesn't see it, and when I boot to
> linux text, fdisk only sees the raided 1t.
>
> Clues for the poor? I want to put the system on the SATA drive, leaving
> the raid for data.
>
>
>

I have no idea what R605 is, but you need to state the version of
Centos (imagine that) and the type of disk controller, i.e., post

  lspci

It's possible the problem is a BIOS setting, e.g., you may need to
turn on AHCI.

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