Topic: Removing a Hard Drive

[grvdgrtoo]

Hello,
  I am trying to upgrade a singe 80gig HD to 2 1000G HDs in RAID, removing the 80 which is an IDE drive.  The new 1000g are SATA, running off of a SATA card installing into a PIII motherboard/processor.   The large drives were originally in another case that is failing.  I put in the card and one drive in the 'new' machine and the large drive was set up as a RAID assembly.  My question is, how do I remove the old smaller drive so I can install the second large drive?  As of now if I turn off/remove the IDE drive, I get an error message while booting along the line of 'kernel panic'.

[Reinhold]

Looks like you now have a 'working' 80Gb Raid1 made from
your old 80Gb HD and the 1Tb new HD (of which 920Gb is unused)
_and_ your system can't even boot from the Sata Card ... 

- Make sure that you can boot from a disk on that Sata Card Controller
- Familiarize yourself with http://wiki.contribs.org/Raid
- Consider a backup and New Install

Regards
Reinhold

[christian]

hmmm sounds like fun.

You could probably do something similar to what is discussed in:
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=41745.0
and then expand the size of the raid etc (as shown in the wiki http://wiki.contribs.org/Raid#Upgrading_the_Hard_Drive_Size)

But if your system is relatively pure (or you don't mind re-adding your contribs) then I would recommend the following:

• fresh install on your new drive pair.
• Use the procedure: http://wiki.contribs.org/UpgradeDisk to transfer your data over.

          or you can use some other backup/restore method.

• Re-add your contribs, if any

          note, all your sme data and mysql data will be moved when doing "Upgrade Disk" so re-adding the contribs is usually just re-installing the package in the same place. Then it begins using your old data properly.

 
Depending on what happend on the newly installed drives during your first attempt (or if they are not generally fresh), you may have to clean up your new drive boot recrods using the following procedure:
http://wiki.contribs.org/Raid#Reusing_Hard_Drives
You should only have to do that if the fresh install step fails.

Hope that helps you get started.

Christian

[grvdgrtoo]

I zero'd the second drive after installing SME on the main drive using the article...thanks for the assistance.