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Old September 17th 05, 03:14 PM
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I currently have a Proliant 5000 doing RAID5 with 4 disks. If I add the
final & fifth drive, and run SCU to reconfigure the SMART-2DH array
controller so that the new drive is an off-line spare, do I need to have
the new disk partitioned and formatted before I do this, or can you just
plug in a "blank" drive and have the controller do all the work when it
does the swapover in the event of a failure?
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Old September 17th 05, 07:33 PM
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I currently have a Proliant 5000 doing RAID5 with 4 disks. If I add the
final & fifth drive, and run SCU to reconfigure the SMART-2DH array
controller so that the new drive is an off-line spare, do I need to have
the new disk partitioned and formatted before I do this, or can you just
plug in a "blank" drive and have the controller do all the work when it
does the swapover in the event of a failure?


No, just identify the drive as a spare and continue business as usual.

- lc


 




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