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Remove 'Ready' Drive on Netraid 1Si

Patrick Tant_1 — Wed, 09 Jan 2002 01:03:03 GMT

E800 with 2x9.1Gb Ultra 3 drives mirrored. In my haste to add additional storage, I mistakenly added an 18gb drive to the array, not a 9.1gb drive. The 18gb drive was acknowledged by the card and netraid assistant. Drive is listed as 'ready' and can only be made into a 'hot swap spare'. Can I safely remove this drive ? If so, how do I get the card / other disks to forget about its existance ?

Any help appreciated.

Re: Remove 'Ready' Drive on Netraid 1Si

Oliver Staehr — Wed, 09 Jan 2002 07:16:01 GMT

Hi,
if a disk is in state ready you should be able to remove it without problems. I never tried this offline but only on HotSwap so i do not know how NetRAID 1si will react if a physical drive is missing after power on, I think you have to enter NetRAID Express Tool and save the new config, but a "ready" drive does not belong to a logical drive (these drives have state "online") and so this should not affect your RAID 0 array.
Anyway, if you change your RAID Config always have a current backup set ready.
Regards, Oliver

Re: Remove 'Ready' Drive on Netraid 1Si

Enes Dizdarevic — Wed, 09 Jan 2002 08:15:50 GMT

Ready drive can be removed without any problems even online (if you have hot swap drives). Just remove it. If you have netraid assistent installed you can do rescan and you will see that there is no drive. Or during next restart you will see that there is no drive. All other drives will not be affected by this action.