On 22/10/10 13:52, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote: > On my PowerEdge 2900 III I have a PERC6/i (MegaRaid SAS 1078). From the > controller bios is seems I have to create a "raid0 virtual drive" for > each physical disk or in order for them to appear in Linux. > > As I intend to use none of that controller's raid features, is it at all > possible to switch it to plain JBOD mode? >
AFAIK no, but you could script the creation of the whole-disk-single-drive-raid0 from within Linux, and if you need to plug the drives into another Linux box, dmraid (and also recent mdadm) will understand the meta data format, and so allow you to access the data. Cheers, Tim. -- South East Open Source Solutions Limited Registered in England and Wales with company number 06134732. Registered Office: 2 Powell Gardens, Redhill, Surrey, RH1 1TQ VAT number: 900 6633 53 http://seoss.co.uk/ +44-(0)1273-808309 _______________________________________________ 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
