Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3470 mails)

[Greg Freemyer <freemyer-ml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom,

I have been using 3ware for a year and a half and there have been
several firmware upgrades in that time.

The manuals used to say that mirrors were created by copying port 0 to
port 1.

They no longer say that.  (At least I can't find it anymore.)

I think I would call 3ware's support line.  They normally answer in a
minute or two and never ask for serial numbers etc., they just answer
your questions.

Hopefully they can tell you.

Greg
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Greg Freemyer

On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 14:32, Tom Nielsen wrote:
> I got my card in and working. I'm currently booting and running my
> system off the drive that is connected to the card. I have a second,
> blank drive connected to the card as well waiting to have a mirror image
> put on it. My problem is this, I go into the card bios on boot and see
> my two drives. I mark them both and then click on 'create array'. At
> this point a message pops up saying "creating an array will remove data
> from your drives." I get scared and abort. 
> 
> Am I wrong in thinking that creating an array (raid 1) should not remove
> my data from the drive on port 0 but should on port 1? Am I going to
> lose data on port 0 by creating this array? If so, why? That seems a bit
> silly.
> 
> I ask because the manual does really say what's going to happen and
> appears to be a bit generic.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tom