Greg - Thanks for the tip. I just called 3Ware and got my answer. My original drive is going to get wiped. I'm going to do a sector-by-sector backup of the drive to another drive using the dd command. Afterwards, they say, I should be able to put all the drive information back onto the newly wiped and now ready raid drive, and have it boot up. Looks like a long weekend. Tom On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 14:35, Greg Freemyer wrote:

Tom,

I have been using 3ware for a year and a half and there have been several firmware upgrades in that time.

The manuals used to say that mirrors were created by copying port 0 to port 1.

They no longer say that. (At least I can't find it anymore.)

I think I would call 3ware's support line. They normally answer in a minute or two and never ask for serial numbers etc., they just answer your questions.

Hopefully they can tell you.

Greg -- Greg Freemyer

On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 14:32, Tom Nielsen wrote:

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I got my card in and working. I'm currently booting and running my system off the drive that is connected to the card. I have a second, blank drive connected to the card as well waiting to have a mirror image put on it. My problem is this, I go into the card bios on boot and see my two drives. I mark them both and then click on 'create array'. At this point a message pops up saying "creating an array will remove data from your drives." I get scared and abort.

Am I wrong in thinking that creating an array (raid 1) should not remove my data from the drive on port 0 but should on port 1? Am I going to lose data on port 0 by creating this array? If so, why? That seems a bit silly.

I ask because the manual does really say what's going to happen and appears to be a bit generic.

Thanks, Tom

-- Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com