Yes it makes sense. But it came configured for Raid 10 2 ea 2 terabye drives. Centos 6.4 doesn't recognize any drive.. Norm Schklar On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:42 AM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > Norman Schklar wrote: > > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:23 AM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > >> Norman Schklar wrote: > >> > Seems I need to disable RAID, but don't find the option in the bios. > >> > 4ea 1 terabyte drives in raid 10 is the current setup. > >> > > >> >>From what I read, I need to disable the onboard raid and let Centos do > >> >> the work. > >> > > >> Ok, I missed the beginning of this thread. Is it currently using Intel > >> (aka fakeRAID)? If so, it's *not* in the BIOS, but rather you have to > >> watch as it comes up, before it gets to the CentOS boot. You'll see > >> something that tells you to hit <ctrl-something>, and in there, in the > >> firmware, you'll disable it. > >> > >> Note that if you do, I believe that everything will be gone, and you'll > >> have to rebuild or restore. I don't *think* software RAID will recognize > >> what the fakeRAID left, though I could be wrong. > > > This was the first of the thread. > > > > This is a new install, so nothing to lose. > > Centor 6.4 doesn't find the drives. > > I use Ctrl E, to open the raid console but it doesn't have an option to > > disable. So each time it boots I get the raid init. > > Not sure how you tell if it's FakeRaid. It is using LSI drivers. > > I think what I want to do is stop the raid and use Centos management. > But > > can't find where to stop the raid. > > There may be a better solution, but what I've read so far says to disable > > the on board raid. > > Oh. You're using LSI? What's the hardware card? I don't think fakeRAID, > the Intel on-motherboard thing, uses them. If you've got a *real* RAID > card in there, then you *should* use it - you don't need the software > RAID. > > For that, what you need to do is to create logical drives - follow the > steps, chose the type of RAID, etc. in the firmware. *THEN*, once you've > created the logical drives, when you reboot, the systems *will* see them > as though they were physical drives. > > Does what I'm saying make sense to you? > > mark > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >