On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Stephen Frost wrote:
>> I'm wondering if I can swap drives from the dead box to the working one to
>> conclude if I've got a broken controller, or broken drives.
(Umm, I think the answer is obvious.)
> Hrm, personally I'd be *very* careful when mucking w/ your config in
Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 00:17:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is this true even for different classes of Mylex cards? i.e. Can a system
running an AcceleRAID 250 be upgraded to an ExtremeRAID (or vice versa)
simply by replacing the RAID card without having to rebuild/reformat the
On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Leonard N. Zubkoff wrote:
> The Mylex RAID controllers store a copy of the configuration on each disk. If
> you replace a failed controller and *all* the disks are still seen (even at
> different target IDs), then the replacement controller should simply adopt the
> configura
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 13:46:03 -0300 (EST)
From: Christian Robottom Reis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Just a short note to aid me in my recovery here: can I remove the disks
from a working array, reset the board configuration, put them back again,
and rebuild the configuration - with no problem?
Christian Robottom Reis wrote:
> And is swapping the first drive with the second on a two-drive RAID1
> allowed (or properly recovers)? Sometimes I wish it was as easy as with
> sw-raid, which has never complained about anything like this before.
It is as easy. You can swap drives (ie. change SCS
On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Dan Jones wrote:
> I examined a number of recovery cases and what you propose to do
> is well supported by Mylex. First, the controller defers to the
> configuration information on the drives when there is a conflict
> with the information stored in the controller. Makes sens
Stephen Frost wrote:
>
> On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Christian Robottom Reis wrote:
>
> > Just a short note to aid me in my recovery here: can I remove the disks
> > from a working array, reset the board configuration, put them back again,
> > and rebuild the configuration - with no problem? Should I al
On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Christian Robottom Reis wrote:
> Just a short note to aid me in my recovery here: can I remove the disks
> from a working array, reset the board configuration, put them back again,
> and rebuild the configuration - with no problem? Should I also backup the
> configuration to a
Just a short note to aid me in my recovery here: can I remove the disks
from a working array, reset the board configuration, put them back again,
and rebuild the configuration - with no problem? Should I also backup the
configuration to a disk?
I'm wondering if I can swap drives from the dead bo
