Is my Dell 2950 running RAID 1 ?

agree with leew , but once you run the raid in order for the disk to array it will take some considerable amount of time which you shld also consider before doing.

Cheers:)
Kamal

If it was configured at the factory it is a RAID 1.  No question.

eagle0468,

How can you make a statement like that?

If you order only 2 disk with the server AND the RAID controller, it will come with RAID 1 configured.
If you order only 3 disk or more with the server AND the RAID controller, it will come with RAID 5 configured.
If you don't order the RAID card and opt for just the SCSI card, it won't have RAID.

Also who knows the process they have at their company for servers.  We order all of our Dells with usually 3 disks because we want RAID1 with a hot spare, we rebuild all of our servers when they arrive.  Who says they don't have a process like that as well.

Pber,  you're absolutely correct.  My statement was completely ignorant.

And Pber, I'm not being facetious at all.  I should have asked how many drives and if a RAID controller is present  Even then it is a matter of the user's preferences whether it is configured as a RAID 1 or RAID 0 with only two drives present.  But, I jumped the gun because I am aware that most factory configurations of Power Edge 2950s come with RAID 1 standard.  If it is 3 disks it will most likely be RAID 5.

What if the machine is loaded with Linux - FC6.   It has 4 SAS drives with a HW RAID controller and should be configured with RAID 1+0.   What's a quick way to make sure it's really setup this way?

thanks!

max

Max, as Pber indicated, you can enter the controller configuration utility during POST using CTRL-R.  In the configuration utility, the first screen should be the Virtual Disk Management.  Within this screen you can expand the + next to Virtual Disks and you should see Virtual Disk 0.  Highlight this array and you will see the configuration information on the right pane under Virtual Disk Prop.