Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 10:04:20 -0700 From: "Samuel Clements" <sclements@linkline.com> To: "'Guy Dawson'" <guy@crossflight.co.uk>, "'Eric Toll'" <etoll@vipstructures.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Is it possible to migrate raid 5 array to another controller? Message-ID: <20040722170419.06BFA116@smtp2.linkline.com> In-Reply-To: <40FFECEF.7040008@crossflight.co.uk>
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> I'm agreeing no. There's no standard for how a controller should > write RAID meta data to the disks in the array. We have moved disks > from one Compaq RAID controller to a newer model but that's because > Compaq does, in part, have it's own internal standard for storing > meta data. With the only possible exception to this being controllers from manufacturers that have been purchased from someone else. Eg: from an ICP Vortex to an Intel, but even then it'd only be specific models. -Sam
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