On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 07:36 -0500, Dave Ihnat wrote: > Hmph. This post is more in frustration than the expectation that someone > has an answer. > > I've a Linux box that's been running an Adaptec ATA 1200A for a long > time--that's a cheap IDE RAID controller. Long enough that the disks > are 120Gb drives. > > One failed (and the controller did what it was supposed to do--griped, > but kept the system up), so I'd like to get it back up and running with > the existing Linux drive. However, the smallest drive I can find is > a 250Gb. Cheap enough to experiment with, I figure. > > SO. First try--use a Diskology DiskJockey to make an exact copy of the > remaining good 120Gb drive to a new 250Gb drive. No joy, no boot. > > OK. Put a good, empty 250Gb drive in the system. The Adaptec recognizes > it, offers to copy the good smaller drive to the larger drive. No joy-- > it tries for a few seconds, then says the copy failed. (Note that > Adaptec docs, while recommending drives of equivalent size and speed, > does say it should be able to do this.) > > At this point, I'm stymied in simply using the ATA1200A to recover itself. > I plan, today, to put the old 120Gb drive and a new 250Gb drive in a > separate Fedora system and try a 'dd', then try to use the new drive > as the remaining working RAID drive. (Glad I didn't start out with the > 500Gb drives I wanted.) > > Anyone else ever tried to upgrade this controller to larger drives without > a full system reload? > > Cheers, > -- > Dave Ihnat > President, DMINET Consulting, Inc. > dihnat@xxxxxxxxxx > Hmmm...The controller itself failed when copying from the small disk to the large disk? Sean
