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On 12/19/2014 12:53 PM, Tim Gustafson wrote:

> Has anyone got any clues they can give me about how to get this disk
> configured to be a RAID-0 volume so that I can put it into the zpool?
>

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 ?

	---Mike

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