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Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ4R Hard Drive failure



By blank do you mean un-partitioned? How about formatted? Will The Raq do all this for me?

Thanks,

Jason

It would appear that my primary hard drive has failed. It's still up as
the mirrored drive is still OK. I plan to put a 30GB 5400RPM Fujitsu IDE
drive the replace the primary.

Is it a simple case of taking out the old and replacing it with the new
and it will mirror it appropriately?

Can't you just get the first drive replaced? I would always replace like-with-like where possible.

I assume its a RAQ4r - that originally had a 2 x 20Gb drives (1 of which has failed) - not sure what will happen if you put a larger drive in - it will probably work - just that you will only get 20Gb out of it.

In the manual is the specification for compatible drives (I also published it here a few days ago) so should be ok just to power down the server - replace the drive and power back up! Will take quite a while to re-mirror though during which time performance will suffer.

Please (if possible) backup the server *completely* before you do this, make sure you replace the right drive (no offence meant but I have seen people re-mirror RAID systems and end up wiping everything!) and make sure the new drive you are putting in is blank.

Thanks...

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