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
