From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Massimiliano Masserelli Subject: Re: Help! Head crash on IDE Seconday Master. Slave has all the data but wont boot Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 02:01:46 +0100 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20021124010146.GA3341@sgabanaz.interim.it> References: <3DDF76C8.8070605@reveltech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DDF76C8.8070605@reveltech.com> To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 07:38:32AM -0500, Stuart Levine wrote: > the boot loader to look at /dev/hdd instead of /dev/hdc (the dead disk > in the raid pair) without loosing my installed data? Try connecting your hdd as hdc (ie, set it as master disk). No other changes should be needed, nor should you switch it back when you will place the new disk in (as slave, of course). Hope it helps. -- Massimiliano Masserelli ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We're living in a golden age. All you need is gold. -- D.W. Robertson.