Hi
Thanks for all the tips.
Just want to report that I've successfully moved.
Here are my brief (and terse) notes:
See /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.gz
Short version:
Assumptions: old disk is hda; mbr is installed hda; bios allows
switching which hard disk you want to boot
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On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 01:12:35PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
That would go to explain why _some_ manufacturers say the master goes on
this connector, the slave on that.
Actually, the UDMA spec would go to explain *that*.
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Marc Wilson wrote:
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 01:12:35PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
That would go to explain why _some_ manufacturers say the master goes on
this connector, the slave on that.
Actually, the UDMA spec would go to explain *that*.
This comment inspired me to go googling.
John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jonathan Wheelhouse wrote:
Hi
I am running Debian unstable on a 30GB drive (IBM Deskstar 75gxp)
using ext3. I recently bought a 120GB drive (Western Digital WD1200).
Oh dear.
Sven has much the same idea I have.
Before I forget, install,
Jonathan Wheelhouse wrote:
John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jonathan Wheelhouse wrote:
Hi
I am running Debian unstable on a 30GB drive (IBM Deskstar 75gxp)
using ext3. I recently bought a 120GB drive (Western Digital WD1200).
Oh dear.
Sven has much the same idea I have.
Marc Wilson wrote:
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 09:53:35AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
Jonathan Wheelhouse wrote:
I've checked the jumper settings - I will probably use Cable Select.
You need a special cable for that. I've never seen one.
Haven't looked very hard then... I think
John Summerfield wrote:
...
I've checked the jumper settings - I will probably use Cable Select.
You need a special cable for that. I've never seen one.
Haven't looked very hard then... I think you'd find it close to
impossible
to put your hands on a 80-pin IDE cable that
Marc Wilson wrote:
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 09:53:35AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
Jonathan Wheelhouse wrote:
I've checked the jumper settings - I will probably use Cable Select.
You need a special cable for that. I've never seen one.
Haven't looked very hard then... I think
Paul Gear wrote:
The crossover cables I have seen are for MFM drives and for floppy
disks. They have a section cable this has a twist in it. None of my ATA
cables, eithe r 40-pin or 80, has such a twist.
They don't have a twist. They are just straight through cables. The
difference
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 09:53:35AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
Jonathan Wheelhouse wrote:
I've checked the jumper settings - I will probably use Cable Select.
You need a special cable for that. I've never seen one.
Haven't looked very hard then... I think you'd find it close to impossible
Hi
I am running Debian unstable on a 30GB drive (IBM Deskstar 75gxp)
using ext3. I recently bought a 120GB drive (Western Digital WD1200).
The family have 5 accounts.
What I would like to do is to make the 120GB drive the main one (using
ReiserFS) and use the 30GB drive for data.
So, the plan
On Saturday 31 July 2004 07:30, Jonathan Wheelhouse wrote:
Hi
I am running Debian unstable on a 30GB drive (IBM Deskstar 75gxp)
using ext3. I recently bought a 120GB drive (Western Digital WD1200).
The family have 5 accounts.
What I would like to do is to make the 120GB drive the main one
On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 04:30:35PM +1000, Jonathan Wheelhouse wrote:
Hi
I am running Debian unstable on a 30GB drive (IBM Deskstar 75gxp)
using ext3. I recently bought a 120GB drive (Western Digital WD1200).
The family have 5 accounts.
What I would like to do is to make the 120GB drive
Sven Hoexter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 04:30:35PM +1000, Jonathan Wheelhouse wrote:
Hi
I am running Debian unstable on a 30GB drive (IBM Deskstar 75gxp)
using ext3. I recently bought a 120GB drive (Western Digital WD1200).
The family have 5 accounts.
What I
Jonathan Wheelhouse wrote:
Hi
I am running Debian unstable on a 30GB drive (IBM Deskstar 75gxp)
using ext3. I recently bought a 120GB drive (Western Digital WD1200).
Oh dear.
Sven has much the same idea I have.
Before I forget, install, configure and configure smartmontools.
Read the docs and
On Saturday 31 July 2004 06:21 am, Jonathan Wheelhouse wrote:
I would boot a Linux Live CD like knoppix, partition and format the new
drive, copy everything from the old drive to the new one, chroot into the
new system, install a boot loader, reboot and be happy.
That is a lot easier then
On 31. July 2004 at 11:49AM -0400,
Silvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
You only need a rescue CD if you screw something up. (Which
I've certainly done, yes, so keep that CD in your back pocket.
:)
Make sure it stays flat: sed s/back/shirt/ ;-)
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Silvan wrote:
On Saturday 31 July 2004 06:21 am, Jonathan Wheelhouse wrote:
I would boot a Linux Live CD like knoppix, partition and format the new
drive, copy everything from the old drive to the new one, chroot into the
new system, install a boot loader, reboot and be happy.
That is a lot
On Saturday 31 July 2004 08:59 pm, csj wrote:
On 31. July 2004 at 11:49AM -0400,
Silvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
You only need a rescue CD if you screw something up. (Which
I've certainly done, yes, so keep that CD in your back pocket.
:)
Make sure it stays flat: sed
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