We have a Dell 2900 with a PERC 6/i controller set up as a small storage server for backups. We would like to take one of the empty drive slots and use this for removable disks to store archives on. We would sync data from the backup set over to the drive in the designated slot and store these off site.
We have tested this configuration, but found that when we remove the drive from the slot and insert a new identical drive in the slot it is no longer recognized by the operating system (CentOS linux). We've had success doing this sort of thing before with e-sata or USB drives, but with the PERC 6/i controller it does not seem to work. We have also tried rescanning the SCSI bus, but this did not help.
Is there a way to use a PERC 6/i controller with removable drives this way?