ShadowLeague Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 I've outgrown my server and have bought an external chassis to house existing drives (and new ones down the road). I've purchased another controller that will be configured for JBOD mode. Are there any issues/concerns moving existing drives to a new controller? I think I need to ensure whatever drive # it was in the pool stays the same; same for the parity drives. Quote Link to comment
craigr Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 (edited) As long as the controller is HBA you shouldn't have to do anything with your configuration. Just physically relocated the drives and boot up. Are you connecting the external chassis via SAS? craigr Edited March 14, 2021 by craigr Quote Link to comment
ChatNoir Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 It is recommended to use HBAs in IT mode. I am no disk controller expert but I think that JBOD is a RAID mode and can cause some issues with Unraid. Quote Link to comment
ShadowLeague Posted March 14, 2021 Author Share Posted March 14, 2021 17 hours ago, craigr said: As long as the controller is HBA you shouldn't have to do anything with your configuration. Just physically relocated the drives and boot up. Are you connecting the external chassis via SAS? craigr Yup; with an LSI SAS9201-16e Quote Link to comment
craigr Posted March 15, 2021 Share Posted March 15, 2021 5 hours ago, ShadowLeague said: Yup; with an LSI SAS9201-16e Yeah, that is HBA IT only so you won't have to do a thing in software. Just plug-and-chug. craigr Quote Link to comment
ShadowLeague Posted March 27, 2021 Author Share Posted March 27, 2021 On 3/14/2021 at 6:29 PM, craigr said: Yeah, that is HBA IT only so you won't have to do a thing in software. Just plug-and-chug. craigr Just an FYI - I read the same thing... that I didn't have to update the firmware to P20. But, my drives weren't detected when I fired up unRAID. After updating the card to the P20 firmware, I was able to see the drives Quote Link to comment
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