RE: Disk swap on Model 600 with v4r2

["Chris Bipes" <chris.bipes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That is the way it is suppose to work.  Can you change the controller card with the same drives?  Do you have disk space to take a couple of drive out of service?  I have replaced smaller drives by removing one raid 5 set at a time and building the raid on the new larger drives.  Can one build a raid set on drives that are already in use?  That is where I am fuzzy.

 
Chris Bipes
Director of Information Services
CrossCheck, Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mark Murphy/STAR BASE Consulting Inc.
Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 1:16 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Disk swap on Model 600 with v4r2

I am considering swaping 4 Gb drives with 8 Gb drives on an old Model 600. 
 I plan to swap the controller as well so I can turn on RAID protection. 
This isn't a real problem, but the hardware is so old that the prospect of 
this scares me a bit.  So the real question is if the restore fails, can I 
just put the old hardware back in (in the same place it was before), and 
everything will be the way it was before?  Or do I need to do something 
else?