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I heard that the expander does this, for some reason. Haven't checked on mine.
Hmmm, I'll have to decide how to relabel them then, need to make sure if a drive dies I'm positive which one it is before I yank it out of the enclosure, lol.
That Norco RPC470, you have at least one, right? Do you have the same problem I have, where you usually have to take the drive below or above a drive halfway out before the drive you actually want to take out will come out. I absolutely abhor this case at this point, especially since the bottom drive bays are useless if you have a full-size server motherboard.
I have a 470 and replaced both carriers with hotswap bays.
How much shorter would they be than the standard carriers with drives installed? If you have a full-size board there's about 1/8" of clearance, making those bottom drive bays useless.
I mean, this limits me from 15 to 13 2tb drives, which isn't a real problem for me at this point.....just saying.
Got the replacement Hitachi drive back, same model as the old ones. Glad they didn't decide to be nice and upgrade it!
The array is expanding to the additional drive now and holy is it slow. Going to take a total of 30 hours to go from a 6 drives to 7 (1TB/e).
mv /sbin/e2fsck /sbin/e2fsck.bak
[COLOR=Gray]#Rename/move the existing e2fsck program[/COLOR]
chmod -x /sbin/e2fsck.bak
[COLOR=Gray]#Don't allow it to execute, just in case[/COLOR]
ln -s /sbin/e4fsck /sbin/e2fsck
[COLOR=Gray]#Create a link to the new utility[/COLOR]
gparted /dev/sda
[COLOR=Gray]#Run gparted on the new disk, will get past the check[/COLOR]
[root@thideras-server ~]# resize4fs /dev/sda1
resize4fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
Resizing the filesystem on /dev/sda1 to 1219480088 (4k) blocks.
The filesystem on /dev/sda1 is now 1219480088 blocks long.
#1
2.2ghz two xeon cpu's
Five 32GB 10,000rpm scsi HDD's
2GB RAM
Raid controller
#2
2.4ghz two xeon cpu's
four 73GB 10,000 scsi HDD's
1gig RAM
Raid controller
Just need to find two sets of rails.
Thanks for the link. I'll have to see if this fits my old Pentium 3 based Dell as well.I use these for my 2850's. The rapid rails are real nice and I also have the cable management arm attached to them.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Dell-PowerEdge-...047?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1e651f686f
Here are the arms.
http://cgi.ebay.com/DELL-POWEREDGE-...323?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item53e5fe71db