[Cialug] Testing SAS drives

[David Champion]

You can certainly test the SAS drive from within the raid
controller, that's part of the function of the controller. I'm not sure,
but I think you could also remove the raid controller and just access the
SAS drives directly.

-dc


On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 5:50 PM Dave Hala <dave at 58ghz.net> wrote:

> I think some of those r610's had non-raid controllers, so you could do JOBD
> with the sas backplane.
>
> On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 4:49 PM L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
>
> > > 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.
> >
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