On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 12:04 AM, J. Epperson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, March 19, 2010 04:33, [email protected] wrote: >> It should work this way: >> >> 1. goto RAID BIOS >> 2. offline both RAID1 HDDs >> 3. create a RAID0 in hotspare drive >> 4. change 'bootable VD' >> 5. do your restore tests >> >> To go back to your original configuration I would recommend to just >> online one of your both RAID1 HDDs and rebuild the other if all is fine. >> > > Just to preserve as many options as possible, I'd return the RAID0 to > hotspare status, online one of the RAID1 HDDs, and let it rebuild on the > hotspare. Then designate the offlined drive as new hotspare. If > something bad happens during the rebuild, you still have the offlined > member untouched.
OK, that sounds like a smart move to me, we will do that indeed. Many thanks, 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
