Hi. While I agree with Shachar about the advantages of software RAID, this is not true. All modern RAID controllers maintain a replica of their configuration on all disks. This allows easy RAID controller migration between *similar* RAID controllers.
If you ship the disks to another server using the same RAID controller (for HP servers, interoperability is available between almost all RAID controllers, but for Dell I don't know), and you insert them _at_the_original_slot_order_, there should be no problem. You will be able to Import/Activate your array and be happy with it. Ez Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Noam Rathaus wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have a server abroad that has a RAID setup - that server has died - >> I bought another computer but now I want to take disks that I have >> "prepared" here in Israel on the same computer setup with RAID and >> ship them. >> >> Is it possible to somehow instruct the RAID setup on the new computer >> (in the US) to use those disks? >> >> The computer is a DELL PowerEdge R200 with SAS6iR: >> http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/pedge_r200?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd >> >> >> Details on such a procedure are scarce. >> >> > One of the greatest problems with hardware raid is that you need the > actual controller in order to access the disks. Sorry. > > Shachar > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
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