Summary: Swap drives in A1000

From: Raval, Nikul <Nikul.Raval_at_Transamerica.com>
Date: Fri Nov 05 2004 - 09:30:38 EST
Thanks to all who responded.  I had no problems 
swapping drives and controller card from one A1000 to another.

Raval, Nikul wrote:
> We have an A1000 which is "in use" but not under maintenance.  Let's call
it
> "A".
> We have another A1000 which is "unused" (decommisioned now) but is still
> under maintenance.  Let's call it "B".
> Can I remove drives from "A" and put them in "B" exactly the way they were
> in "A" and 
> connect the "B" in place of "A" to the server?  Will this hardware swap
> work?
> Will this cause any problems with controller card in A1000,  Raid Manager
> 6.22.1 and it's configuration files and it's license?

The RAID configuration is stored in the controller card, so those 
changes would be lost.

> I think it will work.  Any gotchas as far as RM6 configuration goes?
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