moving from plain SCSI to Hardware Raid, possible ?

From: Ross Tsolakidis (Ross.Tsolakidis_at_day3.com.au)
Date: 10/24/04

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    Hi all,
     
    We have a few servers in production which have a couple of SCSI hard
    disks.
    Currently only using one of them. The 2nd just houses some data as a
    backup.
    We're not really interested in going down the software RAID path, much
    prefer hardware RAID.
     
    Anyways we have a few Adaptec 2110S Single channel RAID cards floating
    around that we could use.
     
    The issue is:
    We really don't want to rebuild the servers from scratch.
     
    Unfortunately I've never done anything like this, everytime you create a
    Raid set in Hardware, you initialize/wipe the disks afaik.
     
    Has anyone ever successfully done this type of thing ?
    Can you give me a bit of a description on how you did it ?
    Also I'd be interested to hear anyone's theory on how it could be done.
     
    Thanks !
      

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