Disk Changes with PERC 4e/Di

[Patrick_Boyd at Dell.com]

You can hotplug the drives and they will be seen by the controller. You
can then use the controller BIOS or another tool to create a new RAID
volume.

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Karl Zander
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 10:08 AM
To: linux-poweredge-Lists
Subject: Disk Changes with PERC 4e/Di

We have PE 2800 running Gentoo Linux with PERC 4e/Di RAID controller. 
It currently has 4 x 147 GB SCSI disks in RAID-5.

We want to replace this with 8 x 300 GB SCSI disks in RAID-5. Do we 
have to make any changes in the PERC 4e/Di controller BIOS to let it 
know of the changed disk configuration? As I recall when we got the 
server it saw the RAID disks without any intervention, but that may 
have been setup at the factory.

--Karl

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