On Nov 30, 2011, at 1:39 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Ross Walker wrote: >> On Nov 29, 2011, at 3:35 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> >>> I've got two drives from a now-dead server, they were RAIDed, a mirror, >>> I'd assume. I need to see if there's anything on them I need to transfer >>> to the replacement, so I just shoved them into another Dell server, with >>> a >>> PERC 5 controller - I think that's what the dead one had. I fired up >>> MegaRAID storage manager... but can't see any way to tell it to recreate >>> that RAID. Anyone done this? >> >> Probably old news now, but in the PERC card's BIOS you want to import >> foreign config, save it and restart. > > Ok, no one else was using one of the two I have available (most are now > surplussed, so there's only a few left in service) is not being used at > the moment, so I rebooted, and went into the firmware. Foreign was greyed > out, unreachable, no matter what I did. > > We're probably writing the drives off - there *shouldn't* be anything to > be recovered on them, but I was just tryin' to be sure.... It may be the drives were software mirrored? Or maybe mirrored with a different controller like a PERC 'i' which works differently then the 'e' controllers. I have heard of people setting their PERCs in pass-through mode and doing software RAID, or setting the drives up as a bunch of single disk RAID0 drives and doing software RAID, so I wouldn't rule it out. See if there is a partition table on the disks or a whole disk LVM VG. > For my own amusement, I installed MegaCli 4, and am trying to puzzle my > way through the lack of documentation, only the output of MegaCLI64 -?.... The MegaCli is the most archaic utility. I have a storage server in one of my datacenters that has a PERC 6i and two PERC 6e controllers and I use a combination of MSM framework and MegaCli to manage it. I'll do an rpm dump when I get a chance and list the Dell/LSI packages installed. -Ross