madburg Posted July 19, 2011 Share Posted July 19, 2011 I am stumpped as I have never done this before. First, I have NO parity drive assigned (test rig). I Stopped the array and want to physically remove one 3TB drive (so I can give it to a friend who has (3) IBM BR10i's and will test it on his controllers so I can post there compatibility on the forum). In either case though, I thought all I would have to do is select from the drop down "no device", once I did that the it turned red and states "Missing", I scrolled down and it states "Stopped: Invalid configuration"? So how does one go about remove a drive in my situation, without having to run a new config and reset the array disk configuration? Link to comment
Joe L. Posted July 19, 2011 Share Posted July 19, 2011 I am stumpped as I have never done this before. First, I have NO parity drive assigned (test rig). I Stopped the array and want to physically remove one 3TB drive (so I can give it to a friend who has (3) IBM BR10i's and will test it on his controllers so I can post there compatibility on the forum). In either case though, I thought all I would have to do is select from the drop down "no device", once I did that the it turned red and states "Missing", I scrolled down and it states "Stopped: Invalid configuration"? So how does one go about remove a drive in my situation, without having to run a new config and reset the array disk configuration? You need to reset the array disk configuration. Link to comment
toby9999 Posted July 19, 2011 Share Posted July 19, 2011 I am stumpped as I have never done this before. First, I have NO parity drive assigned (test rig). I Stopped the array and want to physically remove one 3TB drive (so I can give it to a friend who has (3) IBM BR10i's and will test it on his controllers so I can post there compatibility on the forum). In either case though, I thought all I would have to do is select from the drop down "no device", once I did that the it turned red and states "Missing", I scrolled down and it states "Stopped: Invalid configuration"? So how does one go about remove a drive in my situation, without having to run a new config and reset the array disk configuration? You need to reset the array disk configuration. You mean you have to wipe the whole config and start again? I was having the exact same question as Marburg. Will resetting the config wipe all your data (probably not I guess - you'd have to format the drive to wipe the data I suspect)? Link to comment
Rembro Posted July 19, 2011 Share Posted July 19, 2011 @Madburg It's a test rig? isn't it? no important data? and without a parity drive? When you have a screen connected to the server and login at the root command line type ''initconfig'' this also can be done with Putty over a Telnet connection. go back to main screen and you can assign the new drive, without that missing error for that 3 TB drive all the other settings/appz/ stay the same I've done this a few times, I had a array of 9.0 TB with parity wanted to remove a 1.5TB drive Link to comment
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