Non RAID drive on IBM 5016

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perdrix

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How do I configure a drive attached to the M5016 as a NON Raid drive

I can configure the first two drives as a RAID 1 which I want to boot from but how do I configure the next two drives as just "ordinary" disks?

David
 

Evan

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I don’t know the actual controller but I have done similar before by doing a single disk raid0 for each disks you want to pass through, some controllers pass it through really and some do their own thing with the format.
I assume you have read the manual and there is no function to do it officially. (Only the neeest controllers tend to support this)
 

perdrix

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After much searching I decided that the IBM firmware was just not going to support JBODs as MegaCli command:

adpsetprop enablejbod 1 -aALL

refused to cooperate.

SO I used MegaRec to crossflash the card using the 2208-16.rom file found in the lsi2208fixer.iso

As this point the card still didn't do JBOD.

However this time the adpsetprop command was happily accepted, and when I go into the MegaRAID BIOS the disks now show as JBOD!

Yeah!