How to recover Raid Information from Disk

[RAFILOBERA Andry]

Hello all.
We have Proliant ML350G4 with Hp SmartArray 641 card.
The SmartArray 641 Card has crashed and we have to replace it with a same.
What must we do to avoiding loosing data on the disk.
Thx
Andry

[Mark Livingstone]

You shouldn't have to do anything but pop in the same kind of card. The disks will write the info back to the controller card. .

[Justin Fourie]

this happened to me onece with a Dell losts the hoel array that is why i got an HP now you are surpose to beable to put in any array controller that has the same capabilities as the old one.

[Mark Livingstone]

Correct - For example I had a bad 6404 yesterday. I pulled that card out and installed a new 6404 and the disks wrote back to my 6404 and all of the array info for that particular card came over.

[Basil Vizgin]

If controller crashed when server worked and after powering off the controller no more than 72 hours passed, you must remove cache module (with battery) from bad controller and reattach this module to new controller to flush data from cache to disks.

[Prashant (I am Back)]

I have faced same with dell Power edge 1650 i think it was.

But here no issu
install same make new card.
AS Raid information is stored in Hdd not on CArd.

Trust me

Prashant S.

[Mark Livingstone]

Hey Guys --

Even Prashant confirms what I stated above.

[RAFILOBERA Andry]

Thanks a lot for your answers.
I am more afraid for my data
Thank you

Andry

[RAFILOBERA Andry]

Yes,

I think raid information is stored both on disk and SmartArray.