Reusing old RAID drives

[Jim DeVries]

Hi all,

Just as I was finishing the process of decommissioning our old CL1850, we lost an identical drive on another machine. I would like to use one of the drives from the CL1850 on this other machine but I'm a little concerned about the process.

The drive I was going to swap in came from a RAID-1 set and it's replacing half of another RAID-1 set. How do I ensure that the RAID controller in the ML370 doesn't decide that the new drive is the one it should rebuild from? The worst thing that could possibly happen is that the remaining good drive in the 370 is overwritten by the drive from the 1850. Any advice appreciated!

[Jim DeVries]

I figured this out (surely someone has done this before) I used an old smartstart CD and wiped the array config all together. It rebuilt just fine after that.