[Cialug] Testing SAS drives

[L. V. Lammert]

> Find a surplus server with a SAS backplane and the right size drive
> bays? A 10 year old server like a Dell R610 is basically worthless but
> you would beable to test drives in it.
>
Ah, .. any such HW would include a RAID controller, which makes it just
about impossible to see the drive itself.

The only way to turn OFF the RAID controller is when using a more modern
MB with SW RAID.

	Lee