Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
On Thursday, 28 November 2002 at 10:06:24 +0000, Adam Laurie wrote:Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:yep. like all the others i've found, this deals with fixing problems within the raid itself, not moving a working raid onto a new system (which is effectively what i was doing).No, it addresses exactly your problem, modulo the fact that your plexes were RAID-5. I'd be interested in what makes you think it's different.ok, i'm obviously not making myself clear... my problem wasn't replacing a drive in the RAID, it was replacing the root disk. the system booted off a seperate stand alone root disk. the RAID is entirely independant of the root/boot drive.Yes, you're certainly not making yourself clear. Why did you need to do anything? In a previous message you stated that you did a 'vinum create', though it's not clear why. I suggest you send me (in private mail) the information I ask for in the man page.
ok, let's start again... here is a different but functionally equivelant scenario:
imagine you two machines, A & B:
machine A boots off IDE, and has a SCSI card with an external chassis with 10 drives in it.
machine B boots off IDE, and has a SCSI card but nothing plugged into it.
machine A is configured to have a vinum RAID using only disks on the SCSI card, as per my previous emailed config.
machine B is a fresh install, with no vinum configuration.
describe the procedure for unplugging the external chassis from machine A, and plugging it into machine B, and bringing up the vinum RAID without re-initialising it (i.e. preserving the data already on it). the only data you may take from machine A is the vinum config as per my previous email.
cheers,
Adam
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