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Rebuilding Array on PE2950 from scratch
Ok - probably total brain spasm on my part but I'm having a hard time formatting the virtual disks I've created. The array was totally corrupted by firmware failure and I had to delete the virtual disks and then recreate them. The utility partition seems to be gone as well, as I can't boot to it. I just need to format the virtual drives now so I can restore the data via symantec BESR. Also the cd's that came with the server don't seem to be around anywhere. Tips appreciated!
- Hmmm - I tried restoring from BESR but it couldn't find the drive to put the restore on. Could you give me a few more details? I know BESR is simple but I'm obviously missing something. Anyway, the cd worked great. However once I got everything set up one of the drives decided to go belly up. Sat on the tech chat with Dell for an hour looking at it. They're sending a new drive out Monday.
- I suspect if you can't see any containers in BESR, then the boot CD you have is out of date and doesn't have the driver for the PERC 5 controller. I would install BESR to another 2950 and use the create boot CD function, that should build a new CD with the PERC 5 drivers integrated.
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Posted November 28th, 2007 14:00