Re: Changing a RAID configuration - Adding/removing disks

[Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks.

I'm going to ask a dumb question: What is the significant difference 
between DST and SST?  Seems like sometimes I hear them used almost 
interchangeably (e.g. "Use DST or SST to ....")  I used SST to add the 
drives to the ASP after they were installed and when I went to try to 
start device parity protection on them, that is when I ran into trouble.

So, I'll need to be at the console to do this so it will have to wait a 
few weeks until I am back on site.  But it looks like it is pretty 
straightforward,

I appreciate the help.

Pete


Larry Bolhuis wrote:

> Pete,
>
>  The new drivers are 70GB vs the original ones at 35GB. (But you knew 
> that!)  You should be able to start parity on those drives even now with 
> the data on them. They can be in the same ASP, that's not a problem they 
> will just be a different RAID set.
>
> Boot the thing to DST to into Work with Disk Units, then tell it to 
> Start Disk Parity.  If it doesn't let you do that with the data still 
> there then you'll need to remove the new drives from the ASP, then start 
> Parity, then add them back into ASP 1.
>
>  - Larry
>