Summary: Swap drives in A1000

From: Raval, Nikul (Nikul.Raval@Transamerica.com)
Date: Fri Nov 05 2004 - 09:30:38 EST


Thanks to all who responded. I had no problems
swapping drives and controller card from one A1000 to another.

Raval, Nikul wrote:
> We have an A1000 which is "in use" but not under maintenance. Let's call
it
> "A".
> We have another A1000 which is "unused" (decommisioned now) but is still
> under maintenance. Let's call it "B".
> Can I remove drives from "A" and put them in "B" exactly the way they were
> in "A" and
> connect the "B" in place of "A" to the server? Will this hardware swap
> work?
> Will this cause any problems with controller card in A1000, Raid Manager
> 6.22.1 and it's configuration files and it's license?

The RAID configuration is stored in the controller card, so those
changes would be lost.

> I think it will work. Any gotchas as far as RM6 configuration goes?
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