From: Carsten Aulbert <Carsten.Aulbert@aei.mpg.de>
To: Dermot Paikkos <Dermot.Paikkos@sciencephoto.co.uk>
Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Swap RAID controllers
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 21:24:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201107102125.03370.Carsten.Aulbert@aei.mpg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2125207174.4781310322763708.JavaMail.root@earth.sciencephoto.co.uk>
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Hi
On Sunday 10 July 2011 20:32:43 Dermot Paikkos wrote:
> I have a hardware RAID controller in a server and I strongly suspect it's
> faulty and causing the server to become un-responsive. I'd like to swap
> the controller to see if the problems goes away. I suspect that means I
> will loose the disk configuration. I don't expect a definite answer but
> does anyone know if I can simply swap the card (same manufacture, possibly
> different model) and it pick up the disk configuration?
>
It all depends - mainly on the hardware. *Usually* it should pick up the
disks.
If you have a spare part and a spare system you can test this, e.g. set-u pa
RAID and after shutting down the system swap the drives and see if it still
works.
What controller is it?
Cheers
Carsten
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-10 19:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-10 18:32 Swap RAID controllers Dermot Paikkos
2011-07-10 19:24 ` Carsten Aulbert [this message]
2011-07-10 19:46 ` N. Harake
2011-07-10 19:53 ` Kyle Gordon
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2011-07-10 20:26 Dermot Paikkos
2011-07-10 22:01 ` terry white
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