We are a non profit org.
We had several servers donated to us. (Actually we have over 600 compouters in stock - www.HawaiianHope.org)
One of them, the fastest and newest, is a Proliant DL380 g5. Nice hardware, Dual CPU with Quad core each, 20 gig of ram.
We have 3 drives in it and are trying to install FreeNAS.
Actually FreNas is running successfully, except that every time the server restarts, it decides that it knows better than the human running it, and it automatically rebuilds the RAID array.
I have tried every options in the menus, have manually removed the raid settings about 12 times now, booted with the SmartStart CD and removed the raid settings there.. but no matter what I do, every time it restarts it pops up with 3 menu options at boot, and the "default" setting is to automatically rebuild the raid. If it restarts i have to be standing there in front of it to press the escape key when the short menu pops up. Then when i tell it no raid, now it does not see any drives at all. teh nly time it sees drives is when it automatically builds teh hardware raid
How do i tell it once and for all to disable the hardware raid ? Stop and dont freggin do it again, ever. I hate this type of "automation" that makes it more difficult to accomplish what the end user actually wants to do.