I'm newbie trying to set up my disks on the array for the first time and ran into the following problem.

 

I accidentally assigned the wrong hard drive to disk1 and started the array. I realized my mistake and assigned the right hard drive to disk1 from the devices page. However when i go to my main page there is a red dot by disk1. It lists both hard drives for disk1 (the one previously assigned and the new one) and says it cannot find the right drive.

 

My question is can i tweak the settings so that i can assign my disk drives and parity disk again from scratch. If yes, how do i go about it. Thanks in advance for your help.

I'm newbie trying to set up my disks on the array for the first time and ran into the following problem.

 

I accidentally assigned the wrong hard drive to disk1 and started the array. I realized my mistake and assigned the right hard drive to disk1 from the devices page. However when i go to my main page there is a red dot by disk1. It lists both hard drives for disk1 (the one previously assigned and the new one) and says it cannot find the right drive.

 

My question is can i tweak the settings so that i can assign my disk drives and parity disk again from scratch. If yes, how do i go about it. Thanks in advance for your help.

Yes, you can set a new initial configuration.

 

To do so, you need to log in as "root" on either the system console or via telnet.

Then, you need to stop the array via the web-interface, and then type on the command line

initconfig

It will prompt you for to respond with "Yes"

Type exactly that (three letters, Capital "Y", lower case "es") followed by the enter key.

Then, on the web-interface, refresh the browser.  All the indicators should turn BLUE.

You can then assign the drives as you like on the "Devices" page  as you have forces a new disk configuration.

Please note that forcing a new configuration will immediately invalidate parity based on the old configuration so when you next start the array a full parity calculation will occur.

 

Joe L.

Another tip, to login to the system one can use the built in telnet client but is highly recommended to install putty on your windows machine. It has the advantage that you can copy and paste text to it, among many other features.

Thanks guys. The initconfig solved my problem.