If there is a volume already configured on the shelf the filer will see it as an external volume and it will be offline. You will have to bring it online manually. Spares should just be brought into the spares pool. I think the header info will be different but I can't remember. I have imported external volumes several times with out incident PROVIDED they came off the same style head. If the disks come from a machine that had an alpha processor and you are putting them on a filer that has an intel processor there is a little more you need to do to configure them. Support at netapp had to walk me thru that one about a year ago.

C-

On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 04:31:28PM -0800, William Liu wrote:

Question: Suppose I have an additional disk shelf that has data on it, can I just easily add it to the daisy chain of disk shelves on the netapp? So when I do a "sysconfig -r" it will show as spares? Keep in mind that these drives aren't empty.

I don't see why not since the source file/directory structure comes from the already configured disk shelves. Can someone shed some light on this?

Thanks.