21 Dec
2022
21 Dec
'22
9:41 p.m.
John,
Win2003 had software raid. Does ghost see this?
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: John Herron via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: 21 December 2022 20:27
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Cc: John Herron <barythrin(a)gmail.com>
Subject: [cctalk] Re: Win2K+3 on a Dell Poweredge 2600
I'm not sure but Ghost will at least tell you what it sees. Then you can choose to
back it up. If you can tell it's the right size of the partition you expect then you
should be good to go. You'd just need the raid partition or a regular drive of that
size to restore it.
The catch will be wether Ghost recognizes the raid card.
On Wed, Dec 21, 2022, 7:34 AM Bill Degnan via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
So Chris, your subject should be OT: Win2K+3 on a
Dell Poweredge 2600
because this is not on topic for this list. After all of our comments
about topic/off topic hopefully you understand what we're talking about.
If it's newer than 1990 then your post could very well be off topic
(OT) unless there is something novel about the item that makes it
unique and worth pushing into newer time periods.
To answer your question - read up about this Dell 2600's and the RAID
array types available. There will have been a driver/setup CD that
came with the system that allows the set up of the drives and RAID
prior to installation of the operating system. RAID comes first, then
the OS is installed on top of it as if the multiple drives were one
logical hard drive. The original OS would have been something older
than Win 2003. It is a good thing to have RAID if it works for
redundancy purposes. You can't remove the RAID configuration stick
the OS on one drive without the setup disk. That's not the mentality
you're looking for here. I have one of these in my basement. It came with
RedHat 6.2 I believe.
Bill
On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 12:12 AM Chris via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
comstitutes 1 volume I guess.
> Norton
> > Ghost? I have an extra scsi drive, I can always restore the image to
> > the
> 1
> > drive (yes?), before or without alterimg the currently embedded stack.
> >
> > This thing is heavy. I secured a copy of the Corel Linux Starter Kit
> > and want to load it into the Poweredge. For chips and pringles. I
> > have other pre uefi boxes around but this is lying dormant. And 6
> > drives for my purposes is stupid. And heavy.
> >
> This beast was given to me by a neighbor. Dual
socket 604. Windows
2003
in
> some RAID configuration. I understand (or used to understand) RAID
> levels somewhat. But iinm he tells me the OS is "split" over 6 scsi
> drives. Not getting this, but I don't need all the
> redundancy/striping. I want it all on 1 drive. What to use to image what