mfiutil / foreign drives

[Tim Gustafson]

> Havent run into that one.  Do you have a spare mfi card you can
> pop the drive into ? Perhaps make it a part of a raid1 config (raid1
> from the controller) with another scratch disk, then, through the
> BIOS clear the config so the drives are unused/fresh ?

We do not have any spare cards, unfortunately.  This is kind ancient
hardware that was donated to us, so we don't have any spare parts.

> Can you do it through the card's firmware during the boot process?

That's a possibility; we'll try that on Monday.

For now, I'm doing a "zfs send" of the pool data to another healthy
server just in case this one dies completely.

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