@Wil told me how, but he didn't clarify enough, since he had to go...if you don't mind, could you tell me again, @Wil? I've been all over my BIOS and I can't disable the RAID controller...
I am not sure what to say then as that is where I would expect to do it - usually in the hard drive config screen or in integrated devices / motherboard features or similar (again, varies between everything)
@studiohack I understand ... e.g. on my intel board, I can go in to BIOS and choose modes - IDE/AHCI/Raid.... IDE is bog standard, AHCI enables some advanced features such as NCQ... both of these require no additional drivers or support... then I can choose RAID which some OS's need a dedicated driver for and it gives me an administration interface.
that's the problem, I'm on an Intel Xeon machine...if you want, I can give you the page on Dell Support with the Service tag...perhaps I should try something else, like Windows Server
@studiohack Quite possibly. It may be worth a look in the RAID setup utility to see if you can disable/pass through as IDE/AHCI, but as I tried to explain (badly as I was in a rush), the point of a dedicated raid device is simply to make it as painless to the OS as possible, so even if it was disabled, it may still require a LSI driver
I've cleared the RAID configuration several times, but it says then that no drives are found handled by the controller and none by the BIOS...the BIOS can't see the drives because RAID has all the control...
e.g. Software RAID 1 - both hard drives visible to OS, failure notifies the OS and it does its thing...
Hardware RAID 1 - Everything is done in the RAID chip and as far as the OS is concerned it just has one regular hard drive... if the RAID fails or anything, you can usually hot swap and the OS won't know a thing about it.
ehh... hate to say it, but, have you double checked the hard drives work and are connected? one should see it, I do not understand why neither can and it sounds like an error - I would suggest trying to just go to factory settings with something like Windows or whatever it came with just to test it works as expected
no problem...I know they work, because for a while I had a RAID5 array, with Fedora 12 and a home server (amahi), and I could see 67GB of the 100GB (it is three 30 GB HDDs), and I filled up most of that, past 30GB, so I know they work
I have just lost respect for some of humanity. Adolf Hitler is trending on Twitter. Because it's his birthday. What sick-minded people think that it's a thing to mention/remember?
I'm sorry, need to go to bed in a second, 4AM and im dropping off! I am not really what else I can suggest... if it is in warranty, you may want to ring Dell, or go to a local shop/Ebay and get a RAID card... you can get bog standard cheap ones that work well with FreeNAS for next to nothing
@Wil I think what I'll do is install Windows Server 2003 on a RAID5 (done it before but got rid of it because all my machines are Home (ugh)) and set up a file/print server
thank you so much for the help @Wil, I appreciate it! :)
well... don't do it straight away, I wouldn't give up on Freenas, if you can disable the RAID, it should work... I would advise ringing up Dell and just asking or sending an email to tech support... I haven't used Dells servers for a while and can't really comment
@studiohack I don't know! In the mod history it said an automatic rep recalc occurred, though I don't know why, since I've hardly been getting any upvotes the past few days
I'm a bit irked, but oh well. Now that I'm a mod at least it doesn't affect my ability to get stuff done, but it's still irritating.
though if you can't find it, that's a good sign that for some reason it's not showing up well in search, and might be an indication that you should try editing it so the keywords one might use to search for it are more likely to turn it up
Also it's weird that it took off so much. Last time I audited myself (without doing an actual recalc) was when I was over 10k and it didn't take anything off. Now I'm down about 400
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@DMA57361 everyone at our weekly work meeting was talking about how "Portal 2 is SO MUCH HARDER!!", but probably because we've all played Portal 1 so many times before :P
you start out in a test chamber where the computer teaches you how to do everything by leading you through a series of increasingly complicated tests. The first one is as easy as "put the box on the button", and everything you need to do know from there on gets taught to you as you go.
What site is best for twitter application recommendations? e.g. not about twitter.com directly.... It would be [software-rec], but is more Super User or Web Apps or other?
PuTTY would work great if only I could get it to ignore the changing key, it's PSCP tool is exactly what I want to script the job, but it chokes on the keys and spews out an error if they're not what it's seen before
What's the most pythonic way to scp a file in Python? The only route I'm aware of is
os.system('scp "%s" "%s:%s"' % (localfile, remotehost, remotefile) )
which is a hack, and which doesn't work outside linux-like systems, and which needs help from the Pexpect module to avoid password prompts...
@DMA57361 I saw that, and it relies on a command line program which windows doesn't have by default, I'd have to install and use cygwin to do the job I believe
It looks like a damn fine tool, but it seems SSH developers are militantly against people having to connect to boxen using batch scripts without knowing the key in advance...
I have loads of .com names and never had problems, but only about 5 .co.uk and I (was) trying to use one company for them all... was I being silly or what do you think... pastebin.com/5GyJ37q1 ... it was just getting on my nerves, 5 minute for a crappy response.
I think I should of been better, but it was just getting so annoying!
header files that typedef structs that don't exist in the header files, instead they exist in the source code to the library and never get installed, and documentation that bares no resemblance to the functions available whatsoever is hardly fun... :(
most of the functions are depricated and can only be used if you turn on the flag that lets you use the depricated functions. There is no documentation for the replacements. All the documentation says to use the functions that have been depricated, but doesn't mention the fact that they are depricated, or how to enable them.
Likewise, with Steam I consider the actual games to be expendable as it's only time to download them if something goes wrong, what I want to keep is all my progress in those games... 300GB is about right for all my games...
@Sathya Hmmm, reuploaded - pastebin.com/uepuuMpf (but it is boring)... @linker3000 Yeah, TBH, to have everything under one account, I would pay a little for if it made my life simpler, but it just seemed like they were ripping me off for no rational reason, the dates just did not make sense.
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What's the most pythonic way to scp a file in Python? The only route I'm aware of is
os.system('scp "%s" "%s:%s"' % (localfile, remotehost, remotefile) )
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