[Cialug] Testing SAS drives

[Jeff Chapin]

With a little research, you can either drop a different controller in, or
flash the firmware on the controller on the 11th and 12th gen dells.


On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 3:28 PM David Champion <dchamp1337 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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