I got nice suprise, a disk on old (0.36.6) RAID1 array is going to fail,
it gives read errors on non-raid partition so I'm going to get it
replaced. Now, the "nice" part is that failing partition happens to be
root partition. There hasn't been any major changes in the system since
setup (which was in July 97, no raid boot available back then) so it's
been easy enough to copy changed files from sda1 to sdb1.
Then, next interesting feature is that there's a boot floppy (kernel
only, created with make zdisk I believe), so at least there's no lilo
which could get confused if order of drives changes.
So, what would be the best way (other than full DAT backup) to replace
the disk and get system back as soon as possible? Can I move sdb to be
sda and install new disk as sdb, and the reconstruct RAID or does sdb
must stay as sdb? Howto does not help too much, it seems to refer to
newer RAID than one on that computer.
I need to know as much as possible in advance, since the computer has
on-site warranty and they just throw new one in and take bad one and
leave... No time to put old one back in if something happens.
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