Correct. Reconfiguration is supported by the PERC series of controllers only (with the exception of the PERC H200).
-----Original Message----- From: Ben Tisdall [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 7:26 PM To: Boyd, Patrick Cc: [email protected]; linux-poweredge-Lists Subject: Re: SAS 5/iR raid migration Thanks very much Tino & Patrick. I am guessing the same goes for the SAS6/iR too. On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:00 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > SAS 5/iR does not allow for RAID Level Migration or Capacity Expansion > (Reconfiguration in OMSA parlance). > > -----Original Message----- > From: linux-poweredge-bounces-Lists On Behalf Of Tino Schwarze > Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 4:12 AM > To: linux-poweredge-Lists > Subject: Re: SAS 5/iR raid migration > > Hi Ben, > > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:01:19AM +0100, Ben Tisdall wrote: > >> I wonder if someone could confirm to me that non-destructive raid >> level migration (1 => 0) is NOT possible with the SAS5/iR controller? > > Such conversion would be very risky, to say the least. (In RAID1, you > have a copy of each data block on both disks, in RAID0, you distribute > data blocks evenly: block0 -> disk0, block1 -> disk1, block2 -> disk0, > block3 -> disk1 etc.) Apart from that, the SAS 5/iR is a rather stupid > controller with no fancy logic etc, so I guess it's simply not supported. > >> >From the lack of that option in VD menu I assume that is the case, >> unless it's matter of a driver version: >> >> Firmware Version 00.10.51.00.06.12.05.00 >> Driver Version 3.04.03 >> Minimum Required Driver Version 3.12.29.00 >> >> This is OM 6.2 on Fedora 6 (cannot be upgraded to suit unfortunately). > > OMSA or OS version shouldn't matter at all. > > Tino. > > -- > "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." > > www.lichtkreis-chemnitz.de > www.tisc.de > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
