> Normally, I'd share your sentiment but for one thing. On personal > hardware which I directly control, absolutely need to restore and > get working for my needs I'm a bit of a nut in making things function.
I can't say I'm that far from where you stand. > A small, but useful observation I've come across as a nut. Sometimes > a component in the older hardware controlling port access just ceases to > function whereas the hd itself is fine. Can be. I don't think I have tried it with the FW interfaces on any other hardware, but I suppose I could do that too - I have a spare iMac G3. Using the portable drive through USB works fine with any other machine. > Atro, don't count them out yet. Give them a chance to respond. Absolutely. It's not like I'm in a rush to rid the rack of the Xserve. But I seem to recall the discussion about installing directly onto metadevices starting in about late 2002 when we purchased it. :-) > I believe I recall reading somewhere that parted was the replacement of > pisk/fdisk. I could be oversimplifying the matter greatly, but parted > can see (and modify as needed) any hd I've swapped into the external > housing (which I recommended earlier). I wasn't aware parted did non-DOS partitioning schemes. I suppose I could try that too. -- Atro Tossavainen (Mr.) / The Institute of Biotechnology at Systems Analyst, Techno-Amish & / the University of Helsinki, Finland, +358-9-19158939 UNIX Dinosaur / employs me, but my opinions are my own. < URL : http : / / www . helsinki . fi / %7E atossava / > NO FILE ATTACHMENTS _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
