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Originally Posted by KWayne
Thanks for sticking with me on this. I currently have a:
SnapSever Model 2000 Series
S/W 4.0.854(US)
H/W 2.0.0
BIOS 2.0.252
S/N 42872
that is working quite well with two drives that are combined to look like a single drive, not a Raid 1 environment. I want to replace the existing 2 - 20 Gb drives that work just fine, with 2 - 160 Gb (ATA-100) drives so that I can have more space. Ultimately, I want to configure them as Raid 1 but that can come after the changing of the drives. So I have heard two possible methods, (1), backup any existing data I have, change the existing environment to a Raid 1, then take out one of the drives and replace it with one of the new 160 Gb's. The unit would then copy the OS to the new 160 Gb drive, and when finished, move it to primary, and fail the second one again replacing it with a 160 Gb drive. The (2) method appears to remove the second drive without changing to Raid 1 first, replace it with a new 160 Gb drive, then have it come up after the OS is copied, move this new drive to primary (either Primary or CS) and then remove the second drive which was a 20 GB drive. I am also not clear on what wiki is (I HAVE read all 500 plus pages, but dont remember that term) and would appreciate any help.
Wayne
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I just wanted to provide an update to the forum as far as my upgrade went. I opened the box (on the 2000, there is a single screw at the back then the two halves slide, one forward the other one backward. I then took the drive plate out with the dries to determine which drive was master and which was slave as both had been C/S (cable selected). The drive closest to the rear (power supply) was IDE-1 so I assumed it was the master and I was correct. I replaced the front drive (assumed to be the slave) with a 160 GB drive, with C/S and started it up. About 1 minute later, it was formatting the new drive. I then swapped the front drive (slave) with the rear one (master) and again started it up. After about two minutes, I had two separate drives, each with about 150 GB's. I am now setting them us as mirrored drives. Thanks to all those who helped here in this forum as it would have been very difficult. The only hard part was reading the 500 plus pages.
Thanks, Wayne