Todd Denniston, On Monday, May 24, 2010 11:15 AM > Are you sure that the Perc was not presenting you with a logical disk (Volume)? > One I received from dell, with RHEL on it, was setup with 8 disks in a raid5 and the controller was > presenting the whole array as two drives, i.e., no physical drives are presented to the OS. This is a possibility. I will have to check out the other server hanging around > BTW had your support contract ran out with Dell/RH? We do have support on the box, but don't purchase a RHEL license and we run CentOS instead > you might get lucky with a vgscan or lvmdiskscan, however my bet is on having to put all the drives > back in a perc array. I will try the lvmdiskscan, but vgscan only sees the currently running disk. Problem is, if I put it back into the Perc then it will want to 'initialize' it which I believe will do a low level format :( Thanks Michael =================================== P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail Cleveland Clinic is ranked one of the top hospitals in America by U.S.News & World Report (2009). Visit us online at http://www.clevelandclinic.org for a complete listing of our services, staff and locations. Confidentiality Note: This message is intended for use only by the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or the employee or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender immediately and destroy the material in its entirety, whether electronic or hard copy. Thank you.