[CentOS] Newby using IntelR1304BB Need help with installing 6.4

[Norman Schklar]

Norm Schklar


On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 11:41 AM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:

> Please stop top posting.
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> Norman Schklar wrote:
> > mark wrote
> > 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.
> <snip>
> >> > 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.
> <snip>
> >> 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?
> >>
> > Yes it makes sense.  But it came configured for Raid 10 2 ea 2 terabye
> > drives. Centos 6.4 doesn't recognize any drive..
>
> Does the system have other drives than the RAID? You mention it booting -
> you *are* aware that with RAID 10, you'll have something like 1.6TB
> usable, right?
>
>           mark\
>

I am aware of the 1.6tb.
Only the four 1tb drives + DVD
But I want to just stop the Raid all together.  Looking for the "how to"
turn off raid on boot.

Norm

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