New Drive Setup in Coraid Rack

Drives need initialization before use.  Use minicom to access the Coriad via serial:

[root@backup ~]# minicom
Welcome to minicom 2.00.0
OPTIONS: History Buffer, F-key Macros, Search History Buffer, I18n
Compiled on Feb 21 2005, 19:32:30.
Press CTRL-A Z for help on special keys
Issue the Coraid show command in the minicom terminal window:
SATA shelf 1> show -l
1.0 400.088GB up
1.1 [...]

Using a Disk from Another Decommissioned RAID Array

Before you can reuse a disk from another RAID array, the disk’s superblock must be zeroed per the following command:
# mdadm –zero-superblock /dev/hdc1 –force
Note: The equivalent to the superblock on Microsoft Windows filesystem is the file allocation
 table (FAT), which records which disk blocks hold the topmost directory.