On Nov 29, 2011, at 2:09 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Craig White wrote: >> >> On Nov 29, 2011, at 1:35 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> >>> I've got two drives from a now-dead server, they were RAIDed, a mirror, >>> I'd assume. I need to see if there's anything on them I need to transfer >>> to the replacement, so I just shoved them into another Dell server, with >>> a PERC 5 controller - I think that's what the dead one had. I fired up >>> MegaRAID storage manager... but can't see any way to tell it to recreate >>> that RAID. Anyone done this? >> ---- >> I wouldn't waste the time with MSM - I would simply use the BIOS >> configuration for the RAID storage which can easily look at the drives for >> RAID configuration and load it if it can find it. > > Sorry, let me give my conditions a bit more: I don't think I can reboot > the server - I believe it's currently in use as a development machine by > one of the teams, so I can't play around with it. >> >> That said, I would suspect that the RAID controllers would have to be >> identical >> > I believe it's the same kind of controller, so that's ok. I'm using MSM > for the above reasons, and that the cli isn't installed. > > Playing with this thing, I believe I want to create another drive group, > not just add another RAID to an existing one, which just seems as though > it could get really ugly. But when I click on the controller, I can then > get to "Go To" -> controller, which will let me create a new virtual > drive, but drive group is all greyed out still. Further, I don't see > anything that would let me investigate what the documentation seems to > call a "foreign RAID". > > Hope that gives y'all a better picture of my environment. ---- let me see if I get this right... you don't want to play around with a server that's in production now but you are perfectly willing to play around with a server that's in production mode as long as it doesn't involve rebooting?
I think you have a strange notion of safe things to do with a live production server. Craig _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
