From: Roman Mamedov <rm@romanrm.ru>
To: Joe Landman <joe.landman@gmail.com>
Cc: Ed W <lists@wildgooses.com>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: HBA Adaptor advice
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 18:34:13 +0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110520183413.64fe3ccc@natsu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DD65C18.5090804@gmail.com>
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On Fri, 20 May 2011 08:18:32 -0400
Joe Landman <joe.landman@gmail.com> wrote:
> Second off, you can turn any of the expensive RAID cards into an 'JBOD'
> by doing something like this:
>
> 1) have the unit configured in RAID mode
>
> 2) build virtual disks out of single drives, as RAID0.
>
> 3) iterate 2 until you exhaust your drives.
>
> 4) make sure you prevent these drives from messing with your boot drive
> order ... some bioses "helpfully" reorganize new drives for you by
> messing with this list.
>
> Once the drive is a 1 disk RAID0, you get the cache, and the BBU for the
> cache. Yeah, its a little weird. But it does work (we've done this
> with some LSI8888's).
But can you then access SMART of the individual drives?
Or will you see only some bogus block devices which do not accept SMART
commands, do not return real drive identity, and present themselves as RAID0
#1, RAID0 #2 etc. instead?
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With respect,
Roman
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-20 12:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-19 12:26 HBA Adaptor advice Ed W
2011-05-19 12:36 ` Roman Mamedov
2011-05-19 12:43 ` Mathias Burén
2011-05-19 14:06 ` Michael Sallaway
2011-05-19 19:10 ` Thomas Harold
2011-05-19 21:12 ` Rudy Zijlstra
2011-05-19 21:07 ` Brad Campbell
2011-05-20 20:58 ` Tobias McNulty
2011-05-20 21:23 ` Brad Campbell
2011-05-20 2:08 ` Andy Smith
2011-05-20 5:30 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-05-21 9:52 ` Ed W
2011-05-20 7:33 ` Ed W
2011-05-20 10:21 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-05-21 11:17 ` Ed W
2011-05-21 11:29 ` Rudy Zijlstra
2011-05-21 11:54 ` Ed W
2011-05-21 17:37 ` Leslie Rhorer
2011-05-22 9:41 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-05-22 10:03 ` Rudy Zijlstra
2011-05-23 9:32 ` Ed W
2011-05-21 17:05 ` Leslie Rhorer
2011-05-22 9:04 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-05-22 10:09 ` Brad Campbell
2011-05-22 19:25 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-05-22 20:57 ` Tobias McNulty
2011-05-22 21:13 ` Johannes Truschnigg
2011-05-23 9:48 ` Ed W
2011-05-23 10:44 ` John Robinson
2011-05-22 23:19 ` Brad Campbell
2011-05-23 4:09 ` Roman Mamedov
2011-05-23 5:54 ` Brad Campbell
2011-05-23 6:08 ` Roman Mamedov
2011-05-23 10:42 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-05-23 11:35 ` David Brown
2011-05-23 6:54 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-05-23 7:23 ` Brad Campbell
2011-05-22 23:44 ` Brad Campbell
2011-05-23 0:07 ` Brad Campbell
2011-05-23 5:30 ` Stefan /*St0fF*/ Hübner
2011-05-23 10:18 ` Ed W
2011-05-23 9:58 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-05-23 10:33 ` Ed W
2011-05-23 11:21 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-05-20 12:18 ` Joe Landman
2011-05-20 12:34 ` Roman Mamedov [this message]
2011-05-20 12:36 ` Mathias Burén
2011-05-20 12:48 ` Joe Landman
2011-05-20 13:21 ` Ed W
2011-05-20 14:23 ` Joe Landman
2011-05-20 20:01 ` Andy Smith
2011-05-20 20:12 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-05-20 20:24 ` Drew
2011-05-20 20:58 ` Stan Hoeppner
[not found] ` <4DD7A100.2010807@wildgooses.com>
2011-05-22 8:13 ` Stan Hoeppner
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-05-23 2:11 Jim Schatzman
2011-05-23 3:39 ` Tobias McNulty
2011-05-23 10:42 ` Ed W
2011-05-23 11:14 HBA Adaptor Advice Ed W
2011-05-23 11:55 ` Joe Landman
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