On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:46:33 Greg Freemyer wrote:
On 8/28/08, James Knott <james.knott@rogers.com> wrote:
Damon Register wrote:
A year or so ago I experimented with raid on my pc. I don't remember the brand but I remember the card was a soft raid controller. I
eventually
gave up and just went to making backups. It doesn't seem to bother
Windows
but When I try to install SuSE, the drive is detected as a raid drive. I need to know how to remove the raid marking so the drive will be a normal drive again. Because of some other problems with the partitions, I would like to totally wipe the drive and start over (as if I just bought
it).
I don't know how to wipe in a way that will also remove the raid marking. Though I have tried reading about raid, I don't understand well about such things as the superblock and I don't know where this superblock is or if that is what is causing the drive to be detected as a raid drive.
So far in searching this list and googling, I haven't come up with anything. Any suggestions?
Damon Register
The Yast Partioner should be able to remove that or anything else, to get back to a "bare" drive.
Or you can boot the SuSE cd into rescue mode and then do a:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=4k
And wait an hour or two.
If you don't know the value of X above, you will need to be careful that you don't wipe the wrong disk. [...]
Or you can simply run fdisk (or better, cfdisk) and change the partition type from FD (Linux Raid Autodetect) to 83 (Linux). This should fix it. -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au =================================================== Honk if you love peace and quiet.