Add Disks to Logical Drive on PERC5/2950? - Update

[John]

On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 23:23 -0700, nicole wrote:
> I just realized I missed something in the archives --                                                       
> http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2007-September/032925.html.                              
> Basically, the same question. Ooops. :o)     
> 
> I was hoping the answer wasn't in OMSA, but I will try the LiveCD. For                                      
> reference since I had to use Google to find it, the OMSA LiveCD is here:        
> 
> http://linux.dell.com/files/openmanage-contributions/                                                       
> 
> As stated on the main page, you would need OMSA 5.1 or later in order to                                    
> manage PERC5.      

Why would the only way to configure a perc5 be through omsa? Have a look
see at the perc5 Bios on boot and you should be able to configure the
RAID 5 array from there and add disks to the array, format etc. Also for
Large drives you will mostly configure through GPT .Searh gpt on prior
posts at google. (gpt site:linux-poweredge at dell.com) Also since you
mention using Debian OS some dell servers that use SAS drives have
problems with being recognized by Debian.

good luck

> 
> I'll give this a shot as soon as I get a chance and see if it works. It                                     
> would still be nice to have a little cleaner (scriptable in a rescue CD                                     
> or better yet, in the CTRL+R) way.    
> 
> If anyone has experience/caveats that I should be aware of doing things                                     
> this way, feel free to shout them out. :o)          
> 
> thanks,
> -nicole
> 
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