No trouble. Best is to power down the system - remove the raid 1 disks at least that the disk have no connection to the backplane. Test what you want to test- with the single disk as raid 0. After that delete the raid 0 reinsert the disks => import the foreign config and it will work as before IF you are work remote only, I would set the raid 1 disks to offline => if you reenable it, set only one disk online and set the 2nd in a rebuild state. (this you can do after the os has started to see if all is fine and the 2nd mirrored disk can be used separately in worst case scenarios..)
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gernot Hassenpflug Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 9:15 AM To: linux-poweredge-Lists Subject: swapping RAID1 disk and hot-swap disk for restore image test Dear all, I've set up a R610 with PERC6/i and PERC6/e controllers and MD1000 backup. The R610 has 3 disks: 2 in RAID1 configuration, and 1 as a hot-swap. Before client data was added, I created a restore image using Clonezilla, and tested it on the RAID1 disks successfully (data is over-written by restore process). Now after client data has been added, I have a maintenance time coming up next week where I want to create another restore image and test it---but if possible without deleting data or interfering with the RAID1 configuration. So I want to disable the two RAID1 disks in the BIOS, and use the hot-swap disk as the system disk, do a restore to the new single disk, and test that it runs. Then I want to switch back to the original RAID1 and hot-swap configuration. What I wonder is whether the controller will have an trouble if I disable and reenable RAIDs in this manner? Many thanks in advance for comments and opinions. Regards, Gernot Hassenpflug _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
