Software raid and booting from secondary plex

2009-12-10 Thread Oliver Marshall
Hi chaps, I have an old 2003 server machine here with software raid. It's time to upgrade the disks to larger ones so I intend to swap each disk, waiting between swaps for the data to resync (prob a day or so) and then use the new spare space to create a larger partition in which to move our

Re: Software raid and booting from secondary plex

2009-12-10 Thread Andrew Laya
Here is what I have done in the past. May or may not work, depending on your specific setup. Power down. Install new blank drive as secondary. Power up and resync. Power down. Remove old primary drive. Move new secondary drive to primary position. Install 2nd new blank drive as secondary. Power