From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Aulbert Subject: Re: Swap RAID controllers Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 21:24:56 +0200 Message-ID: <201107102125.03370.Carsten.Aulbert@aei.mpg.de> References: <2125207174.4781310322763708.JavaMail.root@earth.sciencephoto.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart5517215.Zyu8Yarigc"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <2125207174.4781310322763708.JavaMail.root@earth.sciencephoto.co.uk> Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Dermot Paikkos Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org --nextPart5517215.Zyu8Yarigc Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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? >=20 It all depends - mainly on the hardware. *Usually* it should pick up the=20 disks. If you have a spare part and a spare system you can test this, e.g. set-u p= a=20 RAID and after shutting down the system swap the drives and see if it still= =20 works. What controller is it? Cheers Carsten --nextPart5517215.Zyu8Yarigc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk4Z/IkACgkQvfAZOV3797y1BQCfapj3MyIYSLNIDzHkWELx3+On z+QAoLEJ2JwLkrFDvfrKKCGmMvv5xaRE =AGz/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart5517215.Zyu8Yarigc--