This started in this thread and ended with me reflashing my PERC H710 to IT mode, so now I can see all drives on my Dell PowerEdge R720 directly and in fact they appear as I would expect
I should probably mention that every single one of those drives was a RAID-0 to work around the whole RAID thing unnecessary for task at hand. So, now I keep seeing errors like:
I doubt that would cause this and I bet this is something I could fix with some
Is this ask unreasonable or pointless? Those drives are hot swappable, but the system should probably not shuffle them around say if I yank one out.
*EDIT* oh no, it also just occurred to me I can no longer blink with the LED to show me which disk is in which bay. I can no longer do
da0, da1, ..., da7
, followed by USB drives if those are attached. What I didn't expect was for the drives to be assigned those numbers seemingly randomly. If you ever saw the front of that server it offers 8x 3'5 bays so one would reasonably expect those drives to pop in /dev
hopefully in that order "top to bottom, left to right". Except in my case drive in bay-0 turned into /dev/da4. How is this order determined? Is there any way to get reasonable ordering? Or put differently is there a way to have /dev/da0 to always point to whatever is in bay-0, ..., /dev/da7 to always point to whatever drive is in bay-7.I should probably mention that every single one of those drives was a RAID-0 to work around the whole RAID thing unnecessary for task at hand. So, now I keep seeing errors like:
Code:
GEOM: diskid ...: the secondary GPT header is not in the last LBA
gpart
magic. Just thought I'd mention.Is this ask unreasonable or pointless? Those drives are hot swappable, but the system should probably not shuffle them around say if I yank one out.
*EDIT* oh no, it also just occurred to me I can no longer blink with the LED to show me which disk is in which bay. I can no longer do
mfiutil locate
... doesn't look like camcontrol
has anything similar - that's so sad.