On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Ziots, Edward <[email protected]> wrote:
> Seems like one of the last POS Dell boxes in my Datacenter has gone belly
> up, the servicing vendor has brought down another box and we switched the
> drives over, when we booted it it claimed to read the configuration we was
> going to loose data? Does this mean the Perc 4e/Di is hosed, and I just lost
> my OS?

  I'll second the suggestion of calling Dell support.  It's "free",
and better to have expert hand-holding in a case like this.

  That said: The PERC RAID controllers stores a copy of the
configuration in NVRAM and on disk.  When you put a disk set on a new
controller, you have to choose which configuration to use.  That
configuration will be used, overwriting all other configuration
storage locations.  Make sure you choose the configuration-on-disk,
and that will overwrite the NVRAM.

  *That* said: I've been lucky enough that it's been several years
since I've had to move a disk set between servers/controllers, so
don't take my word for it, either.

-- Ben

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