From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 19 23:25:10 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7889ECD0 for ; Fri, 19 Dec 2014 23:25:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ie0-x22e.google.com (mail-ie0-x22e.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c03::22e]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 472502941 for ; Fri, 19 Dec 2014 23:25:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f174.google.com with SMTP id at20so1641647iec.33 for ; Fri, 19 Dec 2014 15:25:09 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=ucsc.edu; s=ucsc-google; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=xNgZ7brD9Px6D/tX6D0XMa0bu4qw99GsX2rqInND6xs=; b=lY2ItlD4B1VpKyCgbQrEIxNCKIJK8+giXqlvTjZyy4qlK4Sxj2YF4Jwb+b3bY0OYWP YJSmiZHuvRMk4nZSBbVXoico2s0+jCiPWItgUXOFSOdaA1gLgi6ZzAxHRtvnyZdeL43y F4u2iH4/v6r+wOCE9AolUym2doPRpg4u3SBKc= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=xNgZ7brD9Px6D/tX6D0XMa0bu4qw99GsX2rqInND6xs=; b=f5CFtodktdan9GaXTXw95i8m+RZI/j8S2mQqQ/vjh+p1II2LlBB7u+qmViTl+oQcYb q0wHDwkmrPxCnDyiv9Nnlbj7EM1c7dt90FzYHmv9Xw01uHRCdA5QgU6F5Tr6MKBnYWrl eK1/HluDJ9Mtm1w2sq155LiWSEiPf6cs2pceOqfZyMoCYcVVjnpNWolrWwXeFZi2s2qQ UQ7jKXVi11rN+mFuhuajR+o71jSelEwI8Yjhr3pdBphsiVQvkSoV3qCUULoU7unA3/g9 S+qs9SuLP5QUbIp+1T2i1PbJy2fqF8EDhcghuTZ1tKal9BZ/JsG8V9VObkmHtWl95xNe 0E4w== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlm74Tv9QF9MFTA3NgjjUUKfY5hwmyJgye5nfGgJ3niMelEB4PfAhuGSDDWsBlKwyDB75Cq MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.107.17.169 with SMTP id 41mr9938167ior.90.1419031509552; Fri, 19 Dec 2014 15:25:09 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.43.156.75 with HTTP; Fri, 19 Dec 2014 15:25:09 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20141219201729.GA50750@neutralgood.org> References: <20141219201729.GA50750@neutralgood.org> Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 15:25:09 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: mfiutil / foreign drives From: Tim Gustafson To: kpneal@pobox.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 23:25:10 -0000 > 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