Swap HD's from one PERC to another

[Patrick_Boyd at Dell.com]

You may or may not have to perform any operations. If you have no
logical drives currently on the target controller all you need to do is
move the disks, reboot and the controller will automatically import
everything. If you do have a configuration all you should need to do is
import the foreign config, this can be accomplished with OMSA or the
Ctrl-R Option ROM.

 

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[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Baird, Josh
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 4:33 PM
To: linux-poweredge-Lists
Subject: Swap HD's from one PERC to another

 

A somewhat off topic question.. If I have two 2850/2950's with identical
PERC's and firmware, would it be possible to take the drives attached to
one PERC, place them on the other PERC and have a fully functional array
(with data) on the new PERC?  I'm guessing I might need to re-create the
array once they are connected to the new PERC, but not initialize it
(which would erase the data?)?

 

Thanks,

 

Josh

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