Mirroring a new non Mitel redundant hard drive

[transfr8]

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We had our provider send an new primary hard drive with upgrade pre-loaded. After the upgrade the 2nd HD would not mirror since it was not the same size\mfg as the replacement they sent. I bought exact model\size OEM seagate drive and getting corrupt error when trying to mirror. IS there a way I can get the 2ndary hard drive to format and then mirror without using the method in previous thread that requires a reboot and is intended for the primary drive? Is there not a format drive command of some sort under maintenance? I looked and could not find an obvious one..

 

[bobcheese]

If there was just a command to do this then we would all be buying OEM disks wouldn't we??
The truth is that Mitel disks have some underlying formatting even without software on them. This can be replicated (i know someone who did this as an experiment)

Take it as a lesson learned, when a raid disk dies you need to order a twin pack not a single disk as Mitel change suppliers quite often and you never know what mf you will get

 

[bobcheese]

After reading the previous thread I stand corrected

My lesson for the day learned.

transf8 - the disk needs to be 'mitel ready' to enable it to be joined in the raid so unless you have another 3300 you can format the disk on then I guess you will need to buy a twin pack from Mitel and do a datasave/data restore.

 

[Billz66]

couldnt you shutdown , take out the original , do a manual generic using fixpartition to same version

reinstall original , attempt rebuild?

 

[LoopyLou]

Billz66: That would most likely work but would take them out of service to do it.

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[Supernova99]

As Billz66 says - There is a command to format a non mitel drive.
However you will lose service doing this while the system builds the new drive partitions.
Just remember to remove your good working drive first.
Once it has been formatted put in the existing drive boot up as normal, insert the newly formatted drive and press the sync button.

For those without Mitel On Line Access, I am posting the following Knowledge Base Article generated by Mitel.

Article ID #
06-9999-00020

Publish Date
Nov-8-2006

Article Title
How to partition a new drive manually

Description/Symptoms
How to partition a new drive manually

Body/Solutions
As of version 6.1 UR1, you can partition a new drive manually when you install it. To do this, follow the instructions below.

Step 1
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- Change the fields in the BootLine as shown below

boot device : motfcc
file name : Boot_Install
host inet(h) : Address of Ftp Server which holds the MN3300 software (i.e. 10.44.16.126)
other(o) : FixPartition

Step 2
======
- Reboot the system

The system will be doing the partition automatically, formatting the hard drive and installing the desired software on the box as usual.


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[transfr8]

Oh well.. that was what I was affraid of.. guess I will give the exact model specs for the current drives and ask them to send me 2 new Mitel prepared drives.

 

[LoopyLou]

They have a 2 drive kit which is what you need.

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