Restoring factory RAID defaults

[Brian A Seklecki (Mobile)]

The management CDs boot a linux livecd and have a bunch of fancy GUIs
for accomplishing  this.

Your default config described doesn't sound accurate, though.  If all of
the disks were configured as one logical volume, then RHES or whatever
shipped on the machine might have been partitioning / LVM2'ing them into
separate partitions.

Normally 6-disk chassis come in a RAID1+RAID10 config.

~~BAS

On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 15:02 -0500, matthew.garman at gmail.com wrote:
> We just received a Dell PE 2950 that we intend to use as an NFS
> server.  It has 6x750 GB (SATA) hard drives on the Perc 5/i
> controller.
> 
> Intially, it appeared to have 2 virtual disks spanning one RAID-5
> array (sizes were 1.715 and 1.691 TB).
> 
> I deleted the two virtual disks and created one large one.
> Unfortunately, I came to realize that CentOS 4.4 doesn't support
> partitions greater than 2 TB (not easily, anyway).
> 
> So I'd just like to revert back to the factory settings, but I can't
> figure out how to create multiple virtual disks over one RAID5
> array.
> 
> Any hints?
> 
> Thanks,
> Matt
> 
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