On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 06:42:23AM -0500, o1bigtenor wrote: > On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 2:35 AM Marc MERLIN <marc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > (Please Cc me on replies so that I can see them more quickly) > > > > Dear Block Folks, > > > > I just inherited a Dell 2950 with a Perc 5/i. > > I really don't want to use that Perc 5/i card, but from all the reading > > I did, there is no IT/unraid mode for it, so I was stuck setting the 6 > > 2TB drives as 6 independent raid0 drives using the card. > > I wish I could just bypass the card and connect the drives directly to a > > sata card, but the case and backplane do not seem to make this possible. > > Not to discourage you from a possibly interesting and fruitful endeavor > but when I bought myself a slightly newer dell server I traded out the > PERC card for a newer version (model 700 IIRC) and then I things > were quite a big different. Said board, bought used, wasn't very > expensive. YMMV Thanks for that suggestion. Indeed, I'd like nothing more than to get rid of that Perc 5/i card, even if it can't be as bad as what I'm seeing. That said, from some reading, an H700 isn't just a swap in replacement, it doesn't use the same cables from what I can tell. https://www.serversupply.com/products/part_search/pid_lookup.asp?pid=312363&gclid=CjwKCAjwkenqBRBgEiwA-bZVtsIuJabv8vB5F8teo0XxgozYWxwNCS7N5Ar1fVQjvaBkRsQtelRlBhoC3f0QAvD_BwE Perc 6/i does use the same cables, but it's barely a better card than 5/i https://www.newegg.com/p/14G-000T-001F5?item=9SIA9AX8NB4437&source=region&nm_mc=knc-googlemkp-pc&cm_mmc=knc-googlemkp-pc-_-pla-splus+technologies-_-hard+drive+controllers+%2f+raid+cards-_-9SIA9AX8NB4437&gclid=CjwKCAjwkenqBRBgEiwA-bZVtnNFqB4fWVPzKkZn_utZwhgYrnBDyKRrafTgRdX2AlHK9NiXr4sxGxoCDqgQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds Best, Marc -- "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R. Microsoft is to operating systems .... .... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/
