Re: Swap RAID controllers

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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