On Sat, 7 Nov 2009, Linda A. Walsh wrote: > I couldn't find a way to do this. I wanted to read > some PC-formatted disks but the Perc6 wouldn't give > me a clean mount. > I took this to mean that any backups I made from my > PowerEdge would only be readable on another LSI > controller. Since I don't have LSI controllers for all > of my PC's, I took this to be a bad thing. I.e. I > bought a 3rd party SATA card for my PE, and am doing > backups to an external box and just running software > RAID to it. At least the disks will be readable on > any SATA PC controller.
So I guess what I wanted to do can't really be done? I know it can be done on older controllers like the PERC 2/si. I was asking because with the availability of PE 1950 servers on the second-hand market at reasonable cost, we were thinking of using these rather than building custom servers as we have done up until now; we use 4 disks per server with three (system, sites and logs) on one SCSI bus and the fourth disk for databases on the second SCSI bus. (That's right, no RAID - we do this at the server level instead). Of course it could be that the performance of a PERC 6 RAID in a PE1950 is so good that we wouldn't really need to think about using dedicated disks for different server functions. Andy > andy thomas wrote: >> I wondered if it was possible to use the PERC6 RAID controller in a PE 1950 >> (the later version with four 2.5" SAS disks) as a plain single or dual >> channel SCSI controller with no RAID? >> >> Andy >> _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
