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PostPosted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 10:37 am 
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Is it okay to shut the server down and move a pool drive to another slot in the chassis? I need to add another drive and then do a removal on a smaller disc. For aesthetic reasons I would then like to move the new disc into the other slot to keep the top slot free for a backup disc.

Does this cause any issues with the WHS OS if I do this?

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No problem at all doing that. Go forward.

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If you use Disk manager be sure to fix your wireframe labels.

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I made the changes and things are working. I do have one problem, under the server storage tab it still shows the drive I moved from bay 4 to bay 2 as still being labeled "drive bay 4".

Is there any way to fix this?


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I'm surprised to hear that, which server is this? Have you rebooted the server?

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 11:24 am 
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Server has been rebooted at the time I moved the discs but I could reboot it again.

As you can see from the screenshots below, something isn't quite right;

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Okay, I rebooted again and still showing wrong in the storage tab.

Most annoying.


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Ok let me guess, the OS drive was in the top slot you then moved it to the bottom slot.
On the MSS I believe the drive count starts from the bottom.
So the bottom drive would be 1, while in Disk manager the count is logical not physical so it goes by os first then whatever drives were added in that order.
If your feeling adventuresom I think there is an XML file that can be tweaked to put the drives in the order you want.
But again you would need to fix the wireframe label to point to the correct physical drive.

Not to mention it looks like your wireframe is still showing the drive in the top slot.

Of course I'm just guessing and could be totally wrong.

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No, I never touched the OS drive.

I put a brand new disk in slot 4.

I added this to the disk pool.

I then did a removal on disk 2.

Once 2 was safe to remove I took it out of slot 2.

I then put that disk in an ESATA enclosure and reformatted it for use as a non-pool backup drive.

Interestingly when I did this it was still showing the drive sitting in the ESATA enclosure as being "bay 2".

I then removed that disk.

I then shut down.

I then moved disk 4 into the disk 2 slot.

I then rebooted.

Since then I've rebooted twice more and disk 4, which is now in slot 2, is still showing slot 4 as its designation.


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One more thing. The wireframe shows that the top slot is EMPTY, not that there is a drive in it.


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I think I would unplug all non storage pool drives and restart with them out just to eliminate that bit of stickyness.
Once you cleared up the drive 2/4 issue then re-add them.

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There are no non-pool drives installed currently.


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yakuza wrote:
I'm surprised to hear that, which server is this? Have you rebooted the server?


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Okay, this appears to be an actual bug and I'm sure others can reproduce it also.

I just powered down again and moved my slot 2 drive to slot three. I then moved the slot three drive to slot two and powered back up.

The system now shows the slot three drive as being labeled slot 2 still and the slot 3 drive as still being in slot 4.

In other words, the bug would be that once the system sets the drive ID for a pool drive it won't let go of that ID if you move the disc.

For my next experiment I will be putting a fresh drive in slot 4. I suspect the system will freak out and claim that it is in slot 3 since it currently shows slot 3 unpopulated (even though it is populated).


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