A friend of mine has some business software that was running on an HP Proliant ml350 server. The drives have a full-length 320 SCSI card attached to a hotswap HD cage with 2 mirrored hard drives.

The motherboard died and a new proliant ml350 server was ordered. Most everything is the same, just newer.

They restored their data to the new server from tape, but the crash happened a day after the latest backup. The goal is to boot those old drives and print the data that was post-backup.

Can they just remove the SCSI card and HD's from the NEW server, set them aside, then install the OLD SCSI card and HD's and boot using the new server?

The OS is SUSE Linux.

I suppose the worst thing is that it would start asking for drivers since the OS sees newer hardware. anything else to watch for?

8/3/2009 9:02:33 AM