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. I typically do a "fdisk -l" to see a list of drives that linux recognizes. Then based on the size I normally know which one is which. If that does not work, I do "hdparm -I /dev/sdX" to get the S/N. and look at the paper label to verify I'm working with the drive I think I am. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org