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Moving Units from an Earlier 9000 Series to a 9650SE or 9690SA Controller
If you are moving units from a 9500S controller to a 9650SE or 9690SA controller, the process is a little different. The steps you follow depend on whether you are booting from the drives attached to the 9500S, or whether they are being used for secondary storage.
To move a bootable unit from an earlier 9000 series controller to a 9650SE or 9690SA controller

1 | If you are working with a Linux system, skip to step 2.

If you are working with a Windows system:

a | Power down the computer.

b | Install the 9650SE or 9690SA controller in the computer, leaving the original controller installed and its drives attached.

c | Boot to the operating system.

2 | Update the driver for the 9650SE or 9690SA RAID controller.

If you are using Linux, you will also need to update the initial RAM disk with the mkinitrd command.

3 | Power down the computer.

4 | Remove the original controller.

5 | If you are working with a Linux system, install the 9650SE or 9690SA controller.

6 | Attach the drives that were on the original controller to the 9650SE or 9690SA controller.

7 | Power up the computer and verify that the upgrade is complete. (The existing units should be available for use.)

8 | Remove old 3DM and CLI files and install new versions.

To move a secondary storage unit from an earlier 9000 series controller to a 9650SE or 9690SA controller

1 | Power down the computer.

2 | Remove the 9500S, 9550SX or 9550SXU controller.

3 | Install the 9650SE or 9690SA controller in the computer.

4 | Attach the drives that were on the original controller to the 9650SE or 9690SA.

5 | Boot to the operating system.

6 | Update the driver for the 9650SE or 9690SA.

If you are using Linux, you may also need to update the initial RAM disk with the mkinitrd command.

7 | Reboot if you are prompted to do so by the operating system.

Some operating systems (for example, Windows 2003) will allow the unit(s) attached to the controller to be used at this point without an additional reboot.

8 | Remove old 3DM and CLI files and install new versions.

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