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

[Patrick_Boyd at Dell.com]

The reconfiguration (RAID level migration and capacity expansion) were
removed from Ctrl-R because almost no customers were able to use this
feature correctly and many times lost data because of the
misunderstanding. If you want to reconfigure you should use OMSA or the
Dell DTK as these are the only tools supported by Dell for this purpose.

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of John
Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2007 2:47 AM
To: nicole
Cc: linux-poweredge-Lists
Subject: Re: Add Disks to Logical Drive on PERC5/2950? - Update

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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