I think I did a consistency check which came up with a failed drive and I think it’s automatically rebuilding the drive as it says drive 1 : ONLIN A00-01 / drive 2 : REBLD A00-00, I cant configure anything at the moment as it says drive is currently in RBLD state, but theres no indication it’s actually doing anything and I turned off the computer not knowing what I was doing whilst it said this and pulled out the drives thinking it would correct itself. I have 2 X 18 GB 15K ultra 320 drives and I configured the RAID array as above which worked well (Great and informative post by the way) but whilst attempting to setup operating system I changed some settings.
I was having some problems finding a floppy and subsequently the right SCSI drivers to try install Windows XP as I didn’t have a copy of Server 2003. Hi I’m very new at this but I have DELL Powervault 770n I recently purchased. I suggest that you don’t change this and leave it to the default values. The advanced menu in the above screen has the following options.
Launch PERC/CERC BIOS Configuration Utility.
If you are using the latest DELL Servers, please refer to the article that explains how to create RAID on PERC 6/i Integrated BIOS Configuration Utility.ġ. This tool is also called as “PERC/CERC Bios Configuration Utility”. In this article, let us review how to add two new disk drives to the DELL server and create RAID 1 using “Dell PowerEdge Expandable RAID Controller – PERC” configuration utility. Expanding the capacity of a server by adding new disk drives is a typical activity for administrator.