moving HD's to new machine and possible damage

seriousisp · n00b Joined: 16 Oct 2006 Posts: 8 Location: Lawrence, KS

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.

nixnut · Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 5:32 pm Post subject:

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.
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seriousisp · n00b Joined: 16 Oct 2006 Posts: 8 Location: Lawrence, KS

vibrokatana · Guru Joined: 09 Feb 2006 Posts: 328 Location: o0o0oo

If it was softraid then it should be no issue. Hardware raid depends mightily.
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