Hi! I have a number of Dell R410's with SAS 6/iR controllers running CentOS 5.5. These controllers are setup with no arrays on them -- we are using the controllers as simple SAS controllers for a specialized filesystem application. In this config the controller presents 4 disks to the system as normal disks, omreport doesn't show any vdisks but does show pdisks (as we would expect). We are able to install an OS and put it into use for the application with no obvious, immediate issues.
Is this configuration supported? I ask because we keep loosing the disk in bay 3 on a number of these systems and reports to Dell so far indicate that this configuration isn't supported/supportable. This may be in part to some alternate hardware configurations that slipped into this pile of hosts that caused us to mis-report things to Dell support at first. But even after correcting the problem report we're being told this isn't supportable. It seems strange to me that we can't use a SAS controller as a simple SAS controller for individual disks, so I'd like a reality check to ensure we're not doing something out-in-left-field. Thanks! -n -- ------------------------------------------- nathan hruby <[email protected]> metaphysically wrinkle-free ------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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
