Moving Smart Array Card and Drive Cage to another server to read data?

[DSect]

I was wondering am I able to pull out my SMART array card from the 1600 and throw it in another server with a 64-bit PCI slot and hook the backplane power to an HD power connector and have it work.

I don't need to boot from the array - I just want to see it I can read info off of it.

I would like to install the SMART card (Install the drivers, no other array software in Win2K) in the new server, with the SCSI cable hooked to the drives and power hooked to the drive cage and be able to read it as another HD on the new server.

The new server is a Dell w/ 64bit pci slots and an existing RAID card + drives. I would be using an empty PCI slot for the card and hooking the drive cage to an empty HD power connector.

Questions:

Can I install the array card in the new server and not lose any array config info and see it as another HD?

Is the backplane power connector / HD cage power connector the same voltage(s) as a normal HD power connector (it's the exact same type)?

Can I move my array card and drive cage to another non-compaq server already running another OS and simply read from the drives as I would a HD?

Thanks!

 

[DSect]

PS - I fixed the problem and didn't need to do this, but I would still like to know if I could have.

Thanks!

 

[Walter349]

I dont think that this would feasible, not impossible, just not practical. You would have to make a power lead adaptor to fit the Drive cage backplane on the 1600 drive cage. The smartcard would most likely work ok, but I doubt the array data would be maintained as it is set up using compaq smart start. If the aray was configured by some third party software, that would work equally well on the Dell, then it would be OK, but Smart Start wouldn't..