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Read drives in another server
I inherited a Poweredge 2600 server with 6 hard drives. I believe they were all configured a separate RAID-0 one-disk arrays. The server died. I would like to try to recover these disks in my PE 2850. Is this possible? From what I can tell, for the new server to accept the disks I have to create an array for them which would delete the data. Is this true of am I hopefully missing something?
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December 10th, 2012 09:00
Yes. The 2600 uses a PERC 4/Di and the 2850 uses a 4e/Di, and while they are similar, they are not exactly the same. They are similar enough, however, that it should work ... however, things such as firmware versions may play the biggest role in how successful it will be. Do you know the firmware version on the 2600? 2850?
When you insert the disks and boot up, you will likely see a warning about an NVRAM mismatch - simply meaning that the configuration on the drives does not match the configuration on the controller. Go to CTRL-M, View/Add, choose Disk View, then Save on exit. This should import the configuration into the controller for use. If you have six separate configurations (one VD per disk), the odds of all of them importing without a hitch are smaller.
"From what I can tell, for the new server to accept the disks I have to create an array for them which would delete the data."
No, this is not true ... necessarily. If the configuration is not properly imported, then you may have to do a "retag" (which is recreating the array on the disk(s), but NOT initializing them), which will just write the configuration data to the disk(s) without overwriting any of the data. Don't do this without more specific instruction though, as other steps must be taken to ensure the disks will not be initialized.