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May 5th, 2011 15:00

Logical drives will not display on post

Perc 4/Di. I have set up 1 X Raid 1 array (2 drives) - channel 0, 1 X Raid 5 array (5 drives)+ 1 X Raid 0 drive - both on channel 1

Everything looks fine and all drives are "online" in the PERC bios.

However, when I boot, no logical drives are displayed.

I have cleared the configuration and re-configured the arrays to no avail.

I even cleared the NVRAM by removing them and replacing.

Even without the logical drive display I was able to load an OS on the RAID 1 array.

Does anyone have any ideas?

  • theflash1932

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    Posted May 5th, 2011 15:00

    Does it say 0 Logical Drives or 0 Physical Drives?

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    Posted May 6th, 2011 20:00

    Thanks guys. The post just had 2 lines:

     Logical drives.....
     Logical drives controlled by bios

    I recreated the logical drives through the view/add choice on the configuration menu and rebooted a number of times.

    NOthing

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    Posted September 16th, 2014 22:00

    Thank you Todd because what you said ( If drives are showing in a ready status, that indicates no control RAID configuration. ) I was able to know the raid configuration on the Dell Power Edge 2800 server I was working on, is corrupt and not working, I had to write new configuration to be able to see the drives, and boot to windows server 2003, at first I was afraid to loose the data or drives, but then I followed the bottom key instruction ( it could of been written better) and it worked, you have to know the old setup, server I was working on had 2 drives on raid 1 and 3 drives on raid 5 for data, the owner had no clue on what kind of raid server had, since raid controller showed me 2 drives are on channel 0 and 3 drives on channel 1, it made sense to me that they were setup on raid 1 and raid 5, so I selected the first 2 drives on channel 0 then hit enter selected raid 1 option then enter till finished, next selected 3 drives on channel 1, hit enter then selected raid 5 and enter till finish, exited raid configuration selected yes to save and rebooted, then windows logo showed up, sweet, 9-16-2014