ok, so here is what i ended up doing on my raid1 array on my CentOS 4.4 box (i was sure it was 5.0, but doh!):
1. image /sda1 and /sda3 with rescuecd onto a 500gb mybook usb drive (cloning would have been better but i don't have the $'s for acronis)
2. pulled existing 2x73gb scsi's and put...
umm... dell says that their server-class hardware and win XP don't do well together. dunno why for sure, but many folks have tried this type of thing and end up going back to a breakable pc platform. i can't believe how chincy pc's have gotten!
the new drives on this linux CentOs5 box are actually going to be 15k 300gb scsi, which are an upgrade from the 10k 73gb scsi's. can't i just plug a new drive in and let it rebuild the to the new disk?
many thanks...
actually, i don't think this is either a h/w or OS prob. based on what you have described, this would seem to be more of a networking issue ("communication failure" you mentioned).
if you haven't already tried this, next time this happens, see if simply restarting the network (instead of...
hi all:
first, let me say that i am not really that technical when it comes to server hardware.
Option 1 Goal: i wish to migrate a 2x73gb raid1 mirror (CentOS) to a 2x146gb raid1 mirror, but want to preserve and copy the existing mirror over to the new disks.
Option 2 Goal: keep the...
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