Want to make sure I replace RAID drive correctly.

In my previous post, I mentioned I had a drive go out and now my system will crash whenever I start my G5 while the fibre channel cables are connected. I'm assuming this is because it automatically mounts the Xserve RAID drive. When I disconnect the fibre cables, it starts up fine and I can go into the RAID admin and see the system and administer it.
Today I got my replacement drive. I've been reading a ton but some re-assurance that I'm doing it correctly would be great. If I've read everything correctly, I should be able to just install the new drive without risk but, if I read everything correctly, I will need to go into the RAID admin utilities and select "make drive available for use" and make the new one the backup?
There is something about "unmounting" the RAID first but it's not mounted or connected by the fibre channel at this time. How/should I do something else to disconnect it? Will it continue to crash my machine at restart or how do I connect it and not have it mount?
Help please
Bart

+I should be able to just install the new drive without risk but, if I read everything correctly, I will need to go into the RAID admin utilities and select "make drive available for use" and make the new one the backup?+
Depending on how the RAID sees the disk it may or may not use it right away. Essentially if it suspects it might be part of another RAID it will not use it until you go into RAID Admin and mark it "available for use". Other than that step it should immediately use the new drive to rebuild the RAID.
+There is something about "unmounting" the RAID first but it's not mounted or connected by the fibre channel at this time. How/should I do something else to disconnect it?+
No, that's talking about unmounting it from the desktop - but with your fibre detached you don't have anything to worry about there.
+Will it continue to crash my machine at restart or how do I connect it and not have it mount?+
I would powerdown the Xserve, attach the cables and then reboot it to be safe. But I wouldn't go so far as to restart the XRAID (unless someone else here with more experience suggests that you do).
Assuming the malformed disk was the source of the crashing hopefully everything will return to normal.
Good luck, let us know how it goes!
=Tod

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