Re: Installing Adaptec 1420SA SATA RAID controller
- From: "Nick" <NoSpam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:42:49 +0100
Joel,
Looks a little expensive for something that we will only use once but might
have to resort to this is all else fails.
Nick
"Joel" <nowhere@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:ObY49ZQEIHA.5648@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Use www.storagecraft.com shadow protect. There 3.0 version is great and
even does Hardware Independent Restore.
"Nick" <NoSpam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:efbNHgOEIHA.748@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi Aart,
I seem to recall looking into dynamic disks before and we decided that
there were way too many drawbacks and too much risk to use them on a
production server. Also I am very reluctant to install Acronis on this;
it is a live Production server, again way too many people have reported
serious problems after installing Acronis. I don't mind booting from an
Acronis CD and mirroring using that but I don't think that would be
likely to see the Adaptec array correctly would it?
I find it quite amazing that the Adaptec controller has no facility for
creating an array from an existing disk. Both VIA and Promise RAID
controllers that I have used previously have been able to do this so why
can Adaptec not do it!
Any suggestions for a clean/simple/safe disk cloning/imaging utility?
Cheers,
Nick
"Aart Jansen" <aart@*remove*hayes.co.nz> wrote in message
news:uZAU$M2DIHA.1208@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Presuming you can boot with both raid controllers active, you could
create a mirror between the 2 volumes, then once it's synced, shutdown &
remove the original disks, reboot and remove the mirror. The downside
being you'll have to convert the volumes to dynamic disks. Otherwise
you'll probably have to use a 3rd party disk cloning/imaging utility.
"Nick" <NoSpam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:%23QIgp81DIHA.5228@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
So having recreated RAID on a pair of fresh disks how do I copy the
existing SBS and other partitions onto the RAID array.
"SBS Rocker" <noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:uWwTVa1DIHA.4836@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
you just can't move two drives from a RAID controller to another, plug
it in and expect it to work. The new RAID controller knows nothing
about the array. Sounds like you need to recreate the RAID container
on the new controller.
"Nick" <NoSpam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:%23oOanP0DIHA.1204@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Further to earlier advise here and elsewhere we decided to install an
Adaptec 1420SA SATA RAID controller card on our Server as an
alternative to the onboard VIA RAID controller we have been using.
Problem is I do not seem to be able to create the Mirror Array using
an existing disk! I did think about doing this and then using
Acronis (boot from CD) to mirror the existing drive onto the new
array but I don't know if Acronis would see the new mirrored array
correctly? Also would that not overwrite the boot sector preventing
the Adaptec controller from detecting that the new drive is part of a
disk array?
Anyone suggest how to do this?
Nick
.
- Follow-Ups:
- References:
- Installing Adaptec 1420SA SATA RAID controller
- From: Nick
- Re: Installing Adaptec 1420SA SATA RAID controller
- From: SBS Rocker
- Re: Installing Adaptec 1420SA SATA RAID controller
- From: Nick
- Re: Installing Adaptec 1420SA SATA RAID controller
- From: Aart Jansen
- Re: Installing Adaptec 1420SA SATA RAID controller
- From: Nick
- Re: Installing Adaptec 1420SA SATA RAID controller
- From: Joel
- Installing Adaptec 1420SA SATA RAID controller
- Prev by Date: Re: Connecting Vista to SBS2003 (cannot run nshelp.exe after kb926
- Next by Date: Re: Primary Server not visible in local domain tree
- Previous by thread: Re: Installing Adaptec 1420SA SATA RAID controller
- Next by thread: Re: Installing Adaptec 1420SA SATA RAID controller
- Index(es):
Relevant Pages
|
Loading
