I have a RedHat 7.3 server that is sick. It would appear that there are all kinds of hard disk errors but I don't think its the hard drive because its done it with two new hard drives. I'm guessing its the on-motherboard disk controller. It will boot up okay, but after a (steadily decreasing) amount of time the errors begin again and the hard drive light stays on. The question is: the motherboard is an old Socket-7 AT Epox which I can't replace exactly -- what are the issues involved with swapping the drive (which I believe is okay) into a new machine with a different motherboard, without reloading RH 7.3 or my data?
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 10:57:11PM -0500, Richard Goodman wrote: dick> The question is: the motherboard is an old Socket-7 AT Epox which I dick> can't replace exactly -- what are the issues involved with swapping dick> the drive (which I believe is okay) into a new machine with a dick> different motherboard, without reloading RH 7.3 or my data? You shouldn't have any problems doing this. If you have the kudzu service turned on, it should even migrate to new hardware automatically. -- Charles R. Anderson <cra@wpi.edu> / http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/ PGP Key ID: 49BB5886 Fingerprint: EBA3 A106 7C93 FA07 8E15 3AC2 C367 A0F9 49BB 5886
My experience doing drive swaps between machines has been very good. It almost always works, a possible pitfall is if you have a custome kernel with hardware spefic stuff compiled in. I would reccomend runing badblocks check on the drive to make sure there are no bad sectors. On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Richard Goodman wrote:
I have a RedHat 7.3 server that is sick. It would appear that there are all kinds of hard disk errors but I don't think its the hard drive because its done it with two new hard drives. I'm guessing its the on-motherboard disk controller.
It will boot up okay, but after a (steadily decreasing) amount of time the errors begin again and the hard drive light stays on.
The question is: the motherboard is an old Socket-7 AT Epox which I can't replace exactly -- what are the issues involved with swapping the drive (which I believe is okay) into a new machine with a different motherboard, without reloading RH 7.3 or my data?
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