this sounds like the right solution, you can do this either form the firmware or the megaraid command line tool MegaCli64 (MegaCli for non-64 bit systems) On 2010-06-30, at 7:18 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote: > 2010/6/30 mark <m.roth at 5-cent.us>: >> Jacob Bresciani wrote: >>> R605 is a power edge server model I think.The Perc6/i is a Dell rebranded >>> raid controller, it's actually an LSI in disguise. Try downloading the >>> Megaraid utilities from LSI and using them to see the status of the card. >> >> Hmmm, I think I see the Linux/CentOS megaraid load as it comes up to the >> install screen (before I get to look at partitioning). >>> >>> Also, when you boot the R605, you should be able to get into the Perc's >>> firmware for drive creation/maintenance. You might want to check there to >>> see how it thinks things are configured and it hasn't decided the 750G drive >>> is a hotspare or something (a hotspare wouldn't show up to the OS). >> >> As far as I can tell, it doesn't think it's a hot spare. Using the firmware >> configuration utility, it sees the physical drive, and that's it. > > you need to export drive as jbod or raid0 if you want to use it on os. > this is typical on hardware raid controllers. > > -- > Eero > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos