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seriousisp n00b
Joined: 16 Oct 2006 Posts: 8 Location: Lawrence, KS
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Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 4:36 pm Post subject: moving HD's to new machine and possible damage |
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I had an IBM Netfinity M!0 was set up with Gentoo and unfortunatly during a ups upgrade gave me post errors on its boot up . something is wrong with the machine and I am trying to decide if it is better to repace teh parts one buy one until it comes up or to uptade to a new server. The maine issue here is that all of my programming is only on the old SCSI drives.
Can I just move the drives to a new IBM SCSI machine without causing any HD damage?
My biggest consern is that I was not able to back up my code prior to the machine going down. |
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nixnut Bodhisattva
Joined: 09 Apr 2004 Posts: 10974 Location: the dutch mountains
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Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 5:32 pm Post subject: |
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Are the disks part of a raid array? If not you can put them safely in another system and check them. I wouldn't try booting off them without checking them and making sure the machines are compatable as far as the kernel is concerned. _________________ Please add [solved] to the initial post's subject line if you feel your problem is resolved. Help answer the unanswered
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seriousisp n00b
Joined: 16 Oct 2006 Posts: 8 Location: Lawrence, KS
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Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 5:44 pm Post subject: |
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nixnut wrote: | Are the disks part of a raid array? If not you can put them safely in another system and check them. I wouldn't try booting off them without checking them and making sure the machines are compatable as far as the kernel is concerned. |
Yes they are in an array?
Any clue on how to proceed as I need teh programming code on the drives |
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vibrokatana Guru
Joined: 09 Feb 2006 Posts: 328 Location: o0o0oo
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Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 6:51 pm Post subject: |
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If it was softraid then it should be no issue. Hardware raid depends mightily. _________________ My Systems - "I suggest the whole thing be coded in whitespace. Henceforth the code will be obscure and functional at the same time." |
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