Am 05.10.20 um 16:57 schrieb Rich Freeman: > If you're doing software RAID or just individual disks, then you're > probably going to go into the controller and basically configure that > disk as standalone, or as a 1-disk "RAID". That will make it appear > to the OS, and then you can do whatever you want with it at the OS > level (stick a filesystem on it, put it in a RAID/lvm, whatever). > > I find this sort of thing really annoying.
Same here! ;-) > I prefer HBAs that just do > IT mode or equivalent - acting as a dumb HBA and passing all the > drives through to the OS. It isn't that it doesn't work - it is just > that you're now married to that HBA card vendor and if anything > happens to the card you have to replace it with something compatible > and reconfigure it using their software/etc, or else all your data is > unreadable. Even if you have backups it isn't something you want to > just have to deal with if you're talking about a lot of data. Yep. So my issue seems to be: non-working arcconf doesn't let me "enable" that one drive. I *might* consider booting up the older Suse OS (still somewhere as well) via the flaky old Java-KVM and try things there. The server is ~600kms away, so my possibilities with Live-USB-sticks etc are limited right now.
