How to get ShredOS to detect PERC H710P Mini in Dell PowerEdge server?

[LRSFC-DanJ]

I'd like to use ShredOS to wipe the drives in a Dell PowerEdge R720 server that is due to be decommissioned. The built in "erase" functions in the RAID controller settings are greyed out hence the idea to use ShredOS, however it doesn't appear to be able to detect the RAID controller.

The RAID controller is a Dell PERC H710P Mini, how do I get ShredOS to detect this?

[PartialVolume]

Unless there is some way in the bios or configuration to present the drives as non raid, ahci or SATA/SAS then this might not be possible. Some raid controllers don't support individual drive access and only work in raid mode so I believe. It really depends on the controller and system. Does the raid controller config have such a setting for switch raid mode to ahci, SATA, SAS or no raid?

ShredOS/nwipe is not designed to work directly on a raid array as it needs to access an individual disc not an array, hence why you need to have the server present the drives as individual SATA/SAS drives and not an array.

Maybe over at Dell's forum they can tell you whether this is possible with the H710P hardware.

[LRSFC-DanJ]

I did look but unfortunately the H710P does not have the option to present the disks as non-RAID.

For the moment I have been able to wipe the disks using a third party commercial utility Active@ KillDisk which can detect the RAID controller and zero the virtual disks, which will suffice for our purposes.

I had just thought perhaps that there might be some driver module that I could drop in somewhere on the ShredOS USB stick to allow it to be able to detect the hardware.