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Re: [cobalt-users] (Raq4) Changing hard drives
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] (Raq4) Changing hard drives
- From: Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat Sep 15 20:43:17 2001
- Organization: nobaloney.net
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
"William J.A. Brillinger" wrote:
> Can anyone tell me, does the raq4 auto-detect the harddrive on boot?
Yes, and yes.
> Should this work or will I corrupt the os. I do this with windows machines
> all the time, unfortunately I don't know enough about Linux or the raq to
> know what to expect.
Should work if you use a drive-image copy program that's Linux aware and
knows how to write to a drive with different metrics.
> Rotating through a series of hard drives is an excellent method of making
> backups that you know work.
If you've got the luxury of shutting down your system long enough to
pull and copy the drive, I suppose. Wouldn't work for me.
Jeff
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