Removing one drive intentionally

I am stumpped as I have never done this before.

First, I have NO parity drive assigned (test rig). I Stopped the array and want to physically remove one 3TB drive (so I can give it to a friend who has (3) IBM BR10i's and will test it on his controllers so I can post there compatibility on the forum).

In either case though, I thought all I would have to do is select from the drop down "no device", once I did that the it turned red and states "Missing", I scrolled down and it states "Stopped: Invalid configuration"? So how does one go about remove a drive in my situation, without having to run a new config and reset the array disk configuration?

I am stumpped as I have never done this before.

 

First, I have NO parity drive assigned (test rig). I Stopped the array and want to physically remove one 3TB drive (so I can give it to a friend who has (3) IBM BR10i's and will test it on his controllers so I can post there compatibility on the forum).

 

In either case though, I thought all I would have to do is select from the drop down "no device", once I did that the it turned red and states "Missing", I scrolled down and it states "Stopped: Invalid configuration"? So how does one go about remove a drive in my situation, without having to run a new config and reset the array disk configuration?

Thanks Joe L.!

I am stumpped as I have never done this before.

 

First, I have NO parity drive assigned (test rig). I Stopped the array and want to physically remove one 3TB drive (so I can give it to a friend who has (3) IBM BR10i's and will test it on his controllers so I can post there compatibility on the forum).

 

In either case though, I thought all I would have to do is select from the drop down "no device", once I did that the it turned red and states "Missing", I scrolled down and it states "Stopped: Invalid configuration"? So how does one go about remove a drive in my situation, without having to run a new config and reset the array disk configuration?

You need to reset the array disk configuration.

You mean you have to wipe the whole config and start again?  I was having the exact same question as Marburg. Will resetting the config wipe all your data (probably not I guess - you'd have to format the drive to wipe the data I suspect)?

@Madburg

It's a test rig? isn't it? no important data? and without a parity drive?

When you have a screen connected to the server

and login

at the root command line type ''initconfig''

this also can be done with Putty over a Telnet connection.

go back to main screen and you can assign the new drive, without that missing error for that 3 TB drive

all the other settings/appz/ stay the same

I've done this a few times, I had a array of 9.0 TB with parity

wanted to remove a 1.5TB drive