LSI Megaraid 150-6 as regular SATA controller

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I have an old but reliable server board that does not have any SATA ports on it. Also i have LSI Megararaid 150-6 (with latest firmware) which i want to use as ordinary "dumb" SATA controller.

I don't want to use any RAID functionality of the controller but just expose physical drives connected to its ports to the operatig system (FreeBSD 9.2 at the moment, three 1TB drives connected to the controller).

Is that possible? Which configuration options in the LSI BIOS should i set?

ewwhite: I'm going to build a software RAID5 but haven't decided yet which filesystem to choose. — b00ster, Jan 23 '14 at 10:36

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 02 '14 at 11:25

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So i ended up contacting LSI support and they advised me to create a separate RAID0 arrays, one HDD in each. Each array is exposed to the system as amrd0, amrd1, amrd2 and you can treat them as common HDD's. Weird but it seems to be the only way to use LSI150-6 as a basic SATA controller.

answered Feb 02 '14 at 11:25

b00ster

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Yes, this is how LSI does JBOD. – Michael Hampton Feb 02 '14 at 16:13

LSI Megaraid 150-6 as regular SATA controller

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