On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 15:03 -0400, Jim Perrin wrote: > > This isn't exactly a Centos question but maybe someone here can help: > > Does the AACRAID controller (as in an IBM 3550) store its config info > > on the drives or internally? I only have one of the boxes and want > > to load Centos 3.x on several drives which can be swapped into > > servers at another location. With SCSI, all that took was a full disk > > dd copy and a little fiddling with the HWADDR for the nics. However > > these don't even see a disk until you run the raid setup in bios. > > > > Does anyone know if a new server will recognize the setup (one drive, > > no raid) from the cloned disk or what it will take to make it > > accept the swap? > > We don't have that exact box, but we've got racks full of ibms like > it. It stores the information on both the controller and the drives. > If they don't match, you'll get a warning that tells you they don't > match and you can either drive on with the existing config, or you can > choose to read the configuration from the drive. If you're swapping > more than one disk, they have to be kept in the same order, or else > it'll get amazingly irritable, and you can kiss your data goodbye. Thanks - It's just one disk but I need to know what the person installing it has to do. Maybe I'll see it when I swap in my first cloned disk to test booting from it. I suppose I should be PXE-booting a common image instead of using local disks anyway... -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com