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Question : Problem: scsi RAID
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We have 4 scsi drives on an Adaptec RAID AAA-133U2. Three made up the RAID and the fourth was a hot spare. The second drive in the chain, scsi #1 went bad so the hot spare which was the fourth drive in the chain, scsi #3, took its place. I need to remove scsi #1 to return it to Fujitsu since it is under warranty.
Question #1 If I remove the second drive in the chain, scsi #1, can I leave the settings as they currently are for scsi #2 & #3 or do I have to change #2 to #1 and #3 to #2?
Question #2 the 3 functioning drives are 7200 rpm. Will it be a problem if the replacement we get is 10,000 rpm if that is all they have available. The current size is 18.2gb. If the replacement is 18.4 will that be a problem if that is all that is available.
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Answer : Problem: scsi RAID
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No need to change the IDs but if the drive being removed is the terminiating drive, you need to set the new end disk to terminiate. If your cable has a seperate terminator block on the end of it, you don't even need to worry about this.
Actually, active terminators blocks give a performance gain to the SCSI chain, as opposed to just using the drive termination. So you might want to get one just for the heck of it.
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