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    Can't access perc 5i raid utility on Dell poweredge 2950ii

    Found that I wasn't doing things in the order that the raid card bios wanted things done. Was able to get some tips from a server guru as to what to do first, second etc and then things were OK. Thanks for the ideas.
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    Can't access perc 5i raid utility on Dell poweredge 2950ii

    Hmmmmmmmm - - - that could work if I were running windows except I'm running Debian stable and that makes it a little difficult to use windows files to access the hardware. I would like to upgrade the bios but then I would have to install windows on the machine - - - Win server is just a wee bit...
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    Can't access perc 5i raid utility on Dell poweredge 2950ii

    Know I have a dead battery on the controller - - - also had a dead battery when I set up my OpenMediaVault system and I was then able to set up the hard drives the way I wanted. Pulled a hard drive from the array to use and now I cannot rebuild the array nor can I move in the HDDparm (IIRC...