SATA Drive Management - DL320

[Kent Scandrett]

Does anyone have any documentation on drive management when using a SATA RAID interface that is not hot swappable?

What I am wanting to do is apply OS and application patches to my server. The server is running in a RAID 1 configuration and I would like to power down and remove one drive from the chassis and keep it on the shelf as a "restore point". After I have completed patching and I am certain the OS and application are operating correctly I will power down and reinsert the drive and allow the RAID to rebuild.

So far I have been unable to find a documented procedure or a document that discusses how the controller funtions.

My main question is how does the server know what drive to boot off of and which drive to overwrite?

On my servers with hot-swap SCSI RAID controllers I simply reinsert the pulled drive once the server is booted and allow it to rebuild.

My operating system is Windows 2000 SP4.

Thanks in advance.

Kent

[Jimmy Basra]

When take 2nd HDD out and boot the unit from single HDD and after applying patches, power down the unit and put the HDD back, when the unit will boot it will write the infornmation back to 2nd HDD automatically

it will check for the latest write to the HDD and then mirror it on 2nd one