Re: swapping heads

From: Stephane Bentebba (stephane.bentebba@fps.fr)
Date: Wed Mar 05 2003 - 06:47:12 EST

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    steve@hq.newdream.net wrote:

    >yes you can do this pretty safely. the filer will complain about NVRAM
    >settings changing on you but you can ignore those warnings. make sure
    >your FCAL cards, etc are in the proper slots, etc. We keep all of our
    >cards in their ideal slots so swapping heads has never complained about
    >anything else besides the settings stored in NVRAM.
    >
    >make sure you have backups just in case, though.
    >
    >Steve
    >
    >On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Peter D. Gray wrote:
    >
    >
    >
    >>Does anybody know if it safe to simply swap
    >>heads between a F720 and a F740 filer?
    >>
    >>Since the OS and configuration is on the disks
    >>I assume this will work ok as long as the
    >>OS and/or configuration is not specific
    >>to either of these 2 models?
    >>
    >>Regards,
    >>pdg
    >>
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    forget aboute FCAL cards as disks on the filer are autoboot,
    just focus on network card being in the same slot or modify /etc/rc and
    eventually /etc/hosts



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