Raid BCM 400 1

[jimmers]

Long story short we installed a regular BCM 400 in a customers site. Turns out they need one with the raid setup. If I put the MSC card and hard drive from the old box in the new raid box, will it save all my keycodes and start to write to the mirrored drive? Would there be an easier way of doing this? Swapping MSC cards and just doing a restore? Thanks!

 

[biv343]

Why not just buy the raid upgrade kit for the that is already there? Cheaper and easier than buying a whole new system.

 

[jimmers]

Well we have the raid BCM sitting here. Can we not pull parts out of it?

 

[SupportDude]

jimmers ....
You can relocate the MSC and HDD from the non RAID BCM to the RAID BCM. But, I would suggest removing both HDD's from the RAID BCM, adding the HDD from the non RAID and a blank HDD. At this point the RAID HDD's are mirrored up.
When you place the HDD from the existing BCM into the RAID BCM, it will not mirror to a programmed HDD. It has to be a blank.

-SD-

http://www.mysupportguy.net

 

[jimmers]

Thanks SupportDude thats exactly the information I was looking for. The raid BCM I have has never been programmed or even turned on. Would this be considered blank?

 

[SupportDude]

I'd have to assume it was tested at the factory, which would have mirrored the drives. When you get a blank drive from Nortel ... its totally blank, no OS, no BCM s/w, no configuration. That's what you need.
You'll need to initialize the old HDD in the RAID system unless its a BCM 4.0.
What you can do is install the HDD from the old BCM into the RAID BCM and see if it starts to mirror up. It takes about 10 minutes to start and is indicated by the Primary and Mirror LEDs flashing and solid amber. If it just stays red, which it will in the beginning, you'll need a blank.
If it doesn't work, bypass the RAID card by plugging the IDE cable directly into the HDD, then order yourself a blank.
When you come back to install the blank, reconnect the IDE cable to the RAID and you'll be in redundant mode. Doesn't matter which HDD is where in the cage either.

-SD-

http://www.mysupportguy.net

 

[jimmers]

Thanks! If I try the hard drive from the old BCM in the new raid system, will anything get erased from the drive? I take it I would put the old hard drive in the primary slot and leave the other in the mirror.

 

[SupportDude]

There's always that chance, but you have a backup right?
Best bet would be to bypass the RAID when you put in the HDD from the old BCM. Then run your Initialize Universal Profile.(Don't forget to change the date to 1/1/08 if this is a 3.6 or 3.7) Then pwr down, reconnect to the RAID, power up and see if they mirror.
I don't think they will, but it's worth a shot.


-SD-

http://www.mysupportguy.net

 

[jimmers]

Thanks! You've been a great help!

 

[SupportDude]

No problem!

-SD-

http://www.mysupportguy.net

 

[jimmers]

Sorry to bring this post back from the dead.

I Removed the MSC card from the non raid BCM and installed it in the raid BCM. The BCM booted up fine and retained the keycodes. I tried to restore the raid BCM with the backup from the non raid BCM but it fails. The error says "Invalid Image Size". Any idea? Thanks.

 

[Dasheen]

Does Non raid have same s/w and patches as raid BCM?

 

[jimmers]

Its the same software version, but doesnt have any patches loaded.

 

[gberger]

Install the latest Desktop and SU_System patches and it will restore fine.