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April 23rd, 2011, 09:42 AM
I am setting up a file server for a small business with RAID 10 for the data drive. The OS and server applications will be installed on a separate smaller HDD not apart of the RAID. I want this to be a hardware RAID, so I purchased a SIIG 4-channel SATA RAID (PCI) controller card and installed it in the server. The card's RAID configuration utility came up separately after the BIOS announcement screen upon pressing ctl-s-f4 it recognizes the four 1 TB hard drives in my hotswap bays, and I used the auto configuration option to choose RAID 10. I used all of the drive space as one partition with the channeling set to 64k.
With the 10.10 server installation CD in the DVD drive I continued to boot the installation CD and started the installation process. I have gotten to the stage where 10.10 server has detected the disks and has stopped at the following screen:
[!] Detect Disks
One or more drives containing Serial ATA RAID configurations have been found. do you wish to activate these RAID devices?
Activate Serial ATA RAID devices?
<yes> <no>
Which should I choose? The RAID Array is only for file data the OS will not be installed on the array. Shouldn't the RAID drive just be seen as another drive? Why would it need to "activate" the device if it is controlled by a hardware RAID card.
At this point the installation program has not even asked me to select the drive on which to install the OS. Nor have I seen a formal list of drives yet.
Please help.
With the 10.10 server installation CD in the DVD drive I continued to boot the installation CD and started the installation process. I have gotten to the stage where 10.10 server has detected the disks and has stopped at the following screen:
[!] Detect Disks
One or more drives containing Serial ATA RAID configurations have been found. do you wish to activate these RAID devices?
Activate Serial ATA RAID devices?
<yes> <no>
Which should I choose? The RAID Array is only for file data the OS will not be installed on the array. Shouldn't the RAID drive just be seen as another drive? Why would it need to "activate" the device if it is controlled by a hardware RAID card.
At this point the installation program has not even asked me to select the drive on which to install the OS. Nor have I seen a formal list of drives yet.
Please help.