[CentOS] Newby using IntelR1304BB Need help with installing 6.4

Thu May 30 14:47:57 UTC 2013
Norman Schklar <norman at schklar.com>

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
>
>
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