USB as a Main Storage device
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@Mike-Ralston said:
@scottalanmiller Well, it's after hours, and I still have more work for later tonight. I'll retrofit a caddy to put it in the correct slot in the morning, just for the sake of it. That doesn't work, I'll reflash the BIOS.
Slot won't matter. No slots are enabled until the RAID controller sets up the drives. Even if it was set up before, switching drives will disable that as it is a new drive setup. The BIOS must be reflashed.
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Any luck on the re flash?
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I doubt that he is awake yet.
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Yeah he is a teenager no such luck there since he went to bed at like 5am
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@Minion-Queen said:
Yeah he is a teenager no such luck there since he went to bed at like 5am
Wow you guys are killin' him.
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@Minion-Queen said:
Yeah he is a teenager no such luck there since he went to bed at like 5am
I got to sleep around 4AM. It was a rough first hour and a half...
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@thanksaj 4:30 here.
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No he decided he had to rebuild his desktop cause he downloaded a game that bogged it down. Darn kid.
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@Minion-Queen said:
No he decided he had to rebuild his desktop cause he downloaded a game that bogged it down. Darn kid.
What do you mean by rebuild? New hardware? System restore?
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System restore I think. With him you never know though.
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@Minion-Queen said:
System restore I think. With him you never know though.
Maybe he pulled new RAM out of somewhere we won't discuss. Who knows? LOL
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@thanksaj said:
@Minion-Queen said:
System restore I think. With him you never know though.
Maybe he pulled new RAM out of somewhere we won't discuss. Who knows? LOL
What ACTUALLY happened, is my system died. Motherboard failure by the looks of it, but I won't have time to fully troubleshoot until tomorrow evening. Thank goodness I just built myself a Mini-ITX PC a few days ago, I'm now able to use that as a work PC until that one is revived.
And if lack of sleep is a contest, I've gotten like 6 hours for the whole week
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You need sleep time to flush toxins from your brain.
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@scottalanmiller Yeah, probably. I plan on getting 7 hours or so tonight.
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@Mike-Ralston said:
@scottalanmiller Yeah, probably. I plan on getting 7 hours or so tonight.
That's a good idea.
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Maybe the power company sent bad power to that one machine, and now it's a paperweight. That would be my first guess. Don't listen to any of the nonsense coming from the "IT experts".
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So you think that the R510 is bricked?
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In order to setup the RAID on the R510, you should get a screen like below and hit Control-R to go into the RAID configuration portion of the BIOS (it's the firmware of the RAID controller, in reality.)
http://www.datacenterins.com/2013/07/how-to-configure-hardware-raid-on-dell.html
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vXRm_GCGmlM/UdZVpMvFdZI/AAAAAAAAAE0/xAPJoIfNCl4/s1374/1.png
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To use a single drive as a single drive on a hardware RAID controller what you do is add it to a one drive RAID 0 set. Seems strange, but that is the only way to designate a single drive as a RAID in a RAID controller.
