I would like to say some specific note on the length of card:

Please use the System Configuration in NOW, and DON'T count on plain logic of: "hey this card is long so it should fit here...".

The only supported configuration (and maybe a few more) are the ones in these tables, and sometimes (like SCSI dual-port card X2023) a long card actually should go to a 32bit slot because an engineering reason....

Just thought it would be useful to mention it...

Eyal.

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-----Original Message----- From: Matt Phelps [mailto:mphelps@cfa.harvard.edu] Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 3:48 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: SUMMARY: F840 for F740 swap

Just to let you all know, the swap went very well Friday night. We followed the previously mentioned NOW article (Solution ID: 3.0.6869703.2865011) with no problems. The only differences were running a required disk_fw_update after the 840 reboot. Also, the original fibre channel card from the 740 wasn't supported in the 840. Fortunatley the 840 we got came with it's own FC card. However, it wouldn't go in slot 1, like we had on the 740 because it is a longer PCI card. This forced all the disks to be re-numbered, but it came up just fine.

Also, the 840 ran a parity recalculation on all the disks. (Perhaps caused by the disk re-numbering?). This was a bit unexpected, and slightly panicy as all the disk lights were going nuts after we brought the 840 up. But the filer was serving up volumes just fine, so we trusted "The Force" and let it go. It finished a few hours later and all is well. We even added a new tray of disks to get us over 1TB!

Thanks to all who responded.