O.k., it's good to know that it wasn't my error. And Brion said that
not much had been done on the drive (wisely!), so no loss, but I did
learn something potentially very important. :-)
Ricky Beam wrote:
On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Jimmy Wales wrote:
The bad news is, I either inevitably or stupidly
(can't decide which
just yet) managed to wipe the existing hard drive in the process.
Almost surely someone a bit more clueful than me could have avoided
that, but I will say that I did my best and chose an option for raid
creation that promised me no data loss. I probably screwed something
up.
There's no way around this. The information stored on drives being assembled
into an array WILL be destroyed. One can re-build a RAID in such a manner
as to not damage any pre-existing (RAID formated) data -- I've done it
hundreds of times with Mylex and DPT hardware, and once or twice with
a NetApp.
Backup, build RAID, and restore. That's the only way to do it. (well,
without a fourth hard drive.)
--Ricky
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