Disable PERC controller in a running system (Linux)

[Mark Watts]

On Monday 07 January 2008 15:44:27 Santi Saez wrote:
> Dear Srs,
>
> Is there any way to enable/disable internal PERC from a running system?
>
> I'm booting some Linux machines from SAN storage and I don't need
> during installation internal PERC RAID controller.. so now I disable
> from BIOS, but I want to know if there's a method to enable/disable
> this card in a running system (from Linux for example), without
> rebooting the machine, thanks!!

rmmod'ing the kernel module(s) for the card is probably the closest you can 
come to disabling it.

Mark.

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Mark Watts BSc RHCE MBCS
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