New Hard Drive

[Karl Larsen]

Robin Laing wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>> Les Mikesell wrote:
>>> Claude Jones wrote:
>>>> On Tue August 14 2007, Karl Larsen wrote:
>>>>>  Thanks a lot! I know what to ask when I talk with them :-)
>>>>> To be safe I better get a power adapter as well. This sure is looking
>>>>> like a Rube Goldberg change and I dislike these.
>>>>
>>>> It really isn't. I've got lots of machines at my work using 
>>>> varieties of this configuration. Once you've done it once, you'll 
>>>> never look back. SATA is a lot faster, even using a card in an 
>>>> older box. 
>>>
>>> How much better will depend on how old the IDE you replaced was.  
>>> SATA is faster but you won't see a huge difference from recent IDE 
>>> models.
>>>
>>    I will be learning a lot over the next few days. I was able to 
>> stop shipping of the sata hard drive and the controller and yes I 
>> would have to buy all the new cables at $18 bucks :-\
>>
>>    But now I am trying to learn how to make a Software RAID1 system. 
>> I Goggled and got some serious but very old data which I printed out 
>> :-)  and hope to be able to apply to F7 but it looks bad now. I will 
>> try man raid and such as that before I attack the raid job. And it 
>> will take 3-5 days to get the new IDE 160 GB HD ;-)
>>
>>    So away we go.
>>
>>
>
> If you are going to mirror your present drive, I would do it in two 
> steps.
>
> Create the RAID1 drive with the new drive.
>
> Mount it and copy all the data to the new drive.
>
> Change the system configuration to boot off of the new drive and then 
> use your old drive and add it to the RAID.
>
> As for IDE drives.  I was reading and article earlier this week that 
> stated IDE drives may not be produced after this year.  At least no 
> newer models.
>
    When I get around to building a new computer it will have serial 
hard drives and DVD's and all such new stuff. But right today IDE still 
works fine as it has for 15 years.


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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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