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тАО04-10-2003 05:56 AM
тАО04-10-2003 05:56 AM
The external enclosure is fully populated with drives. Can I add and extra 2 drives to the 5500's *internal* drive bays, connect the internal drive bays to the second channel of the Smart-2 controller and create a mirrored pair ? I want to add more space to my Netware 4.11 server on this server.
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тАО04-11-2003 01:56 AM
тАО04-11-2003 01:56 AM
Re: Smart-2 controller channel use
If I create a new RAID array (raid 1, 5 or whatever) using disks on the internal drive bays, can I move the disks to the external drive enclosure and maintain the raid config, and data (obviously) on the disks ?
Assuming the disks go in the drive bays on the same order, I wouldn't loose all my data would I ?
Iain Marshall
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тАО04-11-2003 05:48 AM
тАО04-11-2003 05:48 AM
SolutionYou should be able to move drives from the internal port to the external port with no problem. It's possible, if these are two separate arrays, it may change the array order though (what used to be array A may change to B and vice versa). This is unlikely to happen though. If the controller has the latest firmware on it, then keeping the order of the drives when they're moved around isn't important. The controller will be able to see they've been moved and will update itself.
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тАО04-11-2003 05:49 AM
тАО04-11-2003 05:49 AM
Re: Smart-2 controller channel use
Presuming you have a dual-channel Smart-2 controller (basically any one BUT the 2SL or 221) you can do perform all of the additions that you suggest.
The 2SL and 221 have two connectors - one internal and one external - but only one channel.
Cheers,
Janine
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тАО04-11-2003 06:50 AM
тАО04-11-2003 06:50 AM
Re: Smart-2 controller channel use
I thought just occured...when I do insert drives into the internal drive bays (which is connected to the second SMART-2 controller port), can I switch the boot drive from one controller cahnnel to the other one, or does the boot drive always have to be on channel A ?
I know that I can only set the boot controller order in the BIOS, but not the channel on the controller.
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