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question about redhat 6.2 and how it handles hardware changes

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joefart

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I have a system setup with RedHat 6.2. In the system, I have a FastTrak66 running two drives that are striped. I want to remove the the RAID card and move the two drives to the motherboard IDE controller. How does RedHat handle this. If I just pull the card and move the hard drives to the controller, will the OS pick this up automatically and ask me to format the drives? Is it as smooth as that or is there a lot of stuff that I need to do?

Thanks
 
System will find those HDD's, no problem (Kudzu probably tells you about finding them during boot-up), but you have to format them by yourself (system asking to format HDD when you first connect it would be stupid IMHO).
 
Well, I went and pulled the card and moved the drives over to the motherboard IDE. Drives get picked up, but the system will not boot into linux anymore. It stops when trying to mount sda1 (the partition that was located on the Fasttrak66.) Now it asks me to go in as root and do some maintenance. What do I need to do to remove the sda1? Would that be the only thing I need to do to get the system to load linux completely? Also, what command allows me to partition and format the new drives?

Thanks
 
You probably had that RAID array described on /etc/fstab file, you need to remove it from there. For partitioning, you have "fdisk" and "mke2fs" shoud be right tool for formatting partitions.
 
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