Image a sas hardrive off HP 410i raid controler using linux boot disk
I need to image a drive, and I have some linux software to do that, the problem is the Raid controller is a HP 410 which kicks the drive offline because it sees Raid info on it. Is there a way around this?
rindi
You'll have to connect the disk to an SAS controller that isn't a RAID controller, or where you can disable it's RAID functionality.
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It was Raid 5 a few disks, but again I am just trying to image the drives, which the software I have will do that. Problem is, the controller reads the raid info off the disk on post then shuts the disk down so that I can't image it.
Unfortunately I don't have a single disk SAS controller, but I am thinking I may have to order one. Is there any other tricks for that. I am actually surprised with all the HP Smart Start stuff, there isn't just an imaging boot disk.
Unfortunately I don't have a single disk SAS controller, but I am thinking I may have to order one. Is there any other tricks for that. I am actually surprised with all the HP Smart Start stuff, there isn't just an imaging boot disk.
What should anyone need that for in normal situations? If a disk in an array fails, you replace it and the array is rebuilt. If something else fails, you first get rid of the cause of the failure and repair whatever is broken, then restore from your backups.
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@rindi, on paper Raid 5 works like that, not always in practice. Either way, task at hand, anyone know of a good single disk SAS controller?