On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 22:00:22 -0600, Sam MacDonald <smac at visi.com> wrote: > > You need to tell the Raid Controller the drive is there by using Smartstart. It sounds to me like the RAID controller is seeing everything. If the new installation is installed to drive 3, then that means that the RAID controller sees all 3 drives. The first 2 were already a mirror, so there's no need to initialize them, since they already have a COD. I definitely think that Ken is onto something. I'm betting that you have partitions on the mirror and on drive 3 that have the same label on the partition, and when your system tries to go through fstab and mount the partitions by label it's seeing 2 of everything and failing. So modify the fstab to mount by device rather than label, then mount the RAID partitions somewhere in /mnt and copy the files over that you need. Of course, if you want be safe when doing stuff, just put one of the mirrored drives in. It should still work fine, it'll just be "degraded." And if something really gets FUBAR, you have the other half of the mirror sitting there untouched. If all goes well, stick the second drive in after you copy files over and it should automatically rebuild. -- Justin Kremer <justin.kremer at gmail.com> "The best advice I can give you is not to trust the state for anything." - Henn. Co. Court Officer _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list