Subj : Re: Coming back to Linux
To   : deon
From : paulie420
Date : Sun Sep 21 2025 03:17 pm

 de>  > Sorry to burst in, but I'm having some passthrough issues on a new serv
 de>  > the Dell r730xd has 14 HDD bays. I want to pass 8 of them to a TrueNAS 
 de>  > Proxmox, and use the other 6 bays for Proxmox - I'll prolly have to buy
 de>  > another SATA card so I can do this, right???
 de>
 de> I know you can pass through drives one at a time, pRDM and you would do
 de> software raid in the machine that you pass them too.
 de> 
 de> But if you pass the card to the machine, then it will see everything
 de> attached to the card, and assuming the machine has the drivers, it can
 de> control it as if it was physically in the machine (eg: hardware raid).

Yea - exactly this. Its the reason I passed the entire RAID card in my CURRENT NAS server... I'll have to research IF I'm able to connect SOME bays to a new LSB RAID card - like is it physically possible. (Wiring and whatnot)

Thanks.



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