Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 13:46:03 -0300 (EST)
From: Christian Robottom Reis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Just a short note to aid me in my recovery here: can I remove the disks
from a working array, reset the board configuration, put them back again,
and rebuild the configuration - with no problem? Should I also backup the
configuration to a disk?
The Mylex RAID controllers store a copy of the configuration on each disk. If
you replace a failed controller and *all* the disks are still seen (even at
different target IDs), then the replacement controller should simply adopt the
configuration from the disks and reset itself during the BIOS initialization.
I'm wondering if I can swap drives from the dead box to the working one to
conclude if I've got a broken controller, or broken drives.
Once you start swapping around individual drives, then you'll have to either
reinitialize the array or rebuild onto the replacement drive.
Leonard
