How to get ShredOS to detect PERC H710P Mini in Dell PowerEdge server? #266
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Unless there is some way in the bios or configuration to present the drives as non raid, ahci or SATA/SAS then this might not be possible. Some raid controllers don't support individual drive access and only work in raid mode so I believe. It really depends on the controller and system. Does the raid controller config have such a setting for switch raid mode to ahci, SATA, SAS or no raid? ShredOS/nwipe is not designed to work directly on a raid array as it needs to access an individual disc not an array, hence why you need to have the server present the drives as individual SATA/SAS drives and not an array. Maybe over at Dell's forum they can tell you whether this is possible with the H710P hardware. |
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I just checked |
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These SHOULD be on the system as |
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The previously mentioned Active@KillDisk is based on TinyCore Linux, so it is definitely possible for a Linux system to recognise and wipe these disks, it would just be great to see this supported in an open source utility like ShredOS rather than having to purchase closed source commercial products. |
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What raid configuration is this system using? |
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I think |
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The PERC H710 was always problematic. You are better off taking the drives out and wipe it from another decommisioned server where the RAID controller is already set in a working JBOD mode or a dedicated wiping box with a generic $30 SAS LSI RAID controller in JBOD (and then wiping up to 4 drives drives when time allows). Or you start the journey of crossflashing to IT (JBOD) mode which in my experience works. Either way there is some research involved getting this going. There were various giudes out there several years ago how to do the crossflashing. At this time I think https://fohdeesha.com/docs/perc.html is well documented and worth a read if you want to go the crossflashing avenue. |
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I'd like to use ShredOS to wipe the drives in a Dell PowerEdge R720 server that is due to be decommissioned. The built in "erase" functions in the RAID controller settings are greyed out hence the idea to use ShredOS, however it doesn't appear to be able to detect the RAID controller.
The RAID controller is a Dell PERC H710P Mini, how do I get ShredOS to detect this?
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