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From: "Andrew C. Hornback" <achornback@worldnet.att.net>
To: "Shawn Ramsey" <shawn@cpl.net>, <questions@freebsd.org>
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Subject: RE: Moving between Mylex cards?
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 02:41:56 -0400
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Shawn Ramsey
> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 5:34 PM
> To: questions@freebsd.org
> Cc: scsi@freebsd.org
> Subject: Moving between Mylex cards?
>
> Has anyone ever moved a RAID config from say an AcceleRAID 150 to an
> ExtremeRAID 1100 or 2000? I talked to Mylex and they say there _shouldn't_
> be a problem. With COD (configuration on disk) the RAID config should be
> automatically recognized and work like before...

	For sanity's sake, you'd wanna do a full backup before attempting anything
like this.

	If both controllers use the same configuration files, etc. which are stored
on the disk, this would probably work.  Just hope the device identifiers
won't be changing or you could end up with a big mess.

--- Andy


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