Re: [cobalt-users] Ghosting a RAQ550 disk

["Peter Rombouts" <peternews@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Phil Beynon wrote:
>
> >Florian,
> >You read that wrong - I said "worth noting" not "worth nothing" - as in
"it
> >is worth making a note of" the fact that if you fitted a disk that had a
> >fresh ISO setup on it and it was in position one it would boot from this
> >disk then turn the second hard drive into a blank ISO, thus destroying
the
> >data.
> >There was a post on the other list when this happened a while ago, I was
> >just trying to alert to the fact that it could overwrite the users data
> >drive!
> >
> >Phil
> >
>
> I haven't really seached the archives so I'm bad but thought I would
> profess my ignorance by asking the question:
>
> If one wanted to do this, do you just purchase a raw drive (of the same
> type) and stick it in place of one of the raid drives or does it need to
> be formatted first or otherwise prepared? If so, maybe I can find how-to
> in archives but if someone wanted to volunteer..
>
> cheers, Jim
>

Jim, you just have to blank a drive, in Windows you could use Fdisk to erase
all partitions.
That's all the preparation you need.
You don't need to pre-format anything, the RAID1 will do this for you.
You can see the progress in the LED status-bar during boot-time.

Cheers,
Peter.