swapping disks problem

Arnar Þórarinsson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.aacraid.devel
Organization Flugmálastjórn Íslands
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi
I´m setting up a PowerEdge 1650 server with PERC 3/Di Raid controller ,
with RedHat8.0
I have 2 disks mirrored ( OS disks ) and then I have a third disk.  This
disk servers as a backup disk of a sort for some xrecordings
Now the problem is that sometimes I have to remove this disk and replace
it with another disk with some older xrecordings ( older ).
 
Question is : how to do that without having to restart the server ?
 
I´ve tried : 
unmount the disk in linux then in afacli
open afa0
enclosure prepare slot 0 2
(switch the disks )
enclosure activate slot 0 2
then tried to mount the disk again but got message device not a block
device
 
Am I missing some commands here ?
 
Sorry but I don´t know where to ask this question so I´m trying here
( if this is not the right place for these sort of questions could you
tell where I can get help )
 
plz reply this email address
 
 
Regards
Arnar Thorarinsson
 
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