Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 15:25:09 -0800 From: Tim Gustafson <tjg@ucsc.edu> To: kpneal@pobox.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mfiutil / foreign drives Message-ID: <CAPyBAS5925q64wWpgfnbH=-tGofuCK2SkakNpLw0TxS4HzKP7A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20141219201729.GA50750@neutralgood.org> References: <CAPyBAS70zOAVAdcX6=JQ1KN2ZA7MdbRyY=yVe=V3dPHExE3HhA@mail.gmail.com> <20141219201729.GA50750@neutralgood.org>
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> Havent run into that one. Do you have a spare mfi card you can > pop the drive into ? Perhaps make it a part of a raid1 config (raid1 > from the controller) with another scratch disk, then, through the > BIOS clear the config so the drives are unused/fresh ? We do not have any spare cards, unfortunately. This is kind ancient hardware that was donated to us, so we don't have any spare parts. > Can you do it through the card's firmware during the boot process? That's a possibility; we'll try that on Monday. For now, I'm doing a "zfs send" of the pool data to another healthy server just in case this one dies completely. -- Tim Gustafson tjg@ucsc.edu 831-459-5354 Baskin Engineering, Room 313A
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