Disk Changes with PERC 4e/Di

[Kurt_Olsson at Dell.com]

To be a bit more specific, you can add drives hot.  If I am reading your
question correctly, you will be removing the 146GB drives and replacing
with 300s.

If that is the case, then you will have to create a new RAID container
via Ctrl+M or the Open Manage Installation and Server Management CD.
The point here is that you do not have any automagic configuration
faerie that will setup the new disks in some RAID setup.  You must
choose how they are configured and then make that happen.


-----Original Message-----
From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of
Patrick_Boyd at dell.com
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 10:36 AM
To: kzander at commpartners.com; linux-poweredge-Lists
Subject: RE: Disk Changes with PERC 4e/Di

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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