Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ4r RAID Disk Change - PLEASE HELP

[Malcolm McLeary <mmcleary@xxxxxxx>]

Hi James,

on 15/6/02 9:53 PM, James Dean Young wrote:

> I have a RaQ4r RAID box, and I when went to change the LEFT disk
> (when facing it from the front panel), I installed the new disk, and
> then when I booted it up, the RaQ4r erased the master disk and copied
> the info from left NEW disk (which had a default OS from cobalt on
> it) I installed....erasing my master disk with all the web sites on
> it.

I did something similar with a Qube3 once.

> I then went and put the disk that I pulled out back in the RIGHT side
> and worried that I would erase the other disk, I did not put another
> drive into the left slot for mirroring...what did I do wrong?
> 
> The left disk was NOT a failed disk as I was testing out rep0lacing a
> mirrored drive.

I ensure that any new disk is erased before I install it just to make sure
that it can't boot from it and mirror the wrong way.

Cheers,  Malcolm

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