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Just bought an off lease server with one of these cards in it (Poweredge 6450) and I'm having some issues getting the controller to stop being a turd. Or the drive. Who knows. I have two of these servers, and I've not had a chance to test the other, but wanted to get some input while I'm at home before I go tomorrow and start messing around again.
A single drive isn't recognized properly/at all, but once I put two in, the program used to configure a RAID array noticed both drives properly and acts like nothing is wrong at all. My questions is this: Is there some reason the controller cannot handle one drive? Do I NEED two drives in at once for it to work? I've not had much experience with high end SCSI RAID controllers, just SATA and IDE. My experience tells me a single drive should work just fine. The controller just doesn't find it even, or when it does bother to show up, the drive information is all f-ed up. Put two drives in, and viola! both drives show up just great.
Any thoughts?
A single drive isn't recognized properly/at all, but once I put two in, the program used to configure a RAID array noticed both drives properly and acts like nothing is wrong at all. My questions is this: Is there some reason the controller cannot handle one drive? Do I NEED two drives in at once for it to work? I've not had much experience with high end SCSI RAID controllers, just SATA and IDE. My experience tells me a single drive should work just fine. The controller just doesn't find it even, or when it does bother to show up, the drive information is all f-ed up. Put two drives in, and viola! both drives show up just great.
Any thoughts?