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September 2003, Week 3

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Mark Landin <[log in to unmask]>
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 On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 22:46:38 -0500 (Central Daylight Time), Craig
Lalley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Tough Question of the Week.
>
>I have several members of a 4 member volume set, spread across multiple (4)
>Mod20's.  Everything is mirrored.
>
>I would like to move all the members to a single Mod20, is this possible
>without a store and restore.
>
>Can't I just move the drives and change the configurations to point to the
>right path?  Or are the drives tied to the SP620 processors?  Has anyone ever
>tried this?

That would be dangerous. Some of the disks in the Model 20 have the
controller microcode in them. You should not be swapping disks from a
"live" RAID set to another array, and probably not even WITHIN an
array.

A STORE and RESTORE is definitely your safest (and perhaps only) bet.

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