this is probably a stupid question, but alright
I have an older ibm webserver, a netfinity 5100. It has 6 (5 now) 10 gig uscsi drives in the front and I threw in an 80 gig seagate hdd.
I tried installing redhat 9 on a parition of the seagate, but grub wouldnt load. I assume because I pinned the drive down but the partions take up the entire 80 gigs. the bios, which I believe is up to date, doesnt like hdds larger than 32 (?) gigs
I ended up installing ubuntu dapper on one of the front drives, and while grub loads off the /boot partition there, it somehow bounces off the seagate (hda1) first

my question is how it redirects from the seagate to the front drive, as I want to format the old redhat partition and regain some space, but I dont want to erase anything to do with currently working grub.

second question, kind of specialty, in the ibm serveraid application (I'm currently using the bootable cd, I belive version 7) is there a way to reset a raid drive without clearing all of them? I was messing with the box when I first got it and got one of the drives marked defunct. because I hadnt really done anything I didnt have a problem resetting all the drives to their original state.
Now I think a drive got marked defunt prematurely when the power went out, although it may indeed be damaged. I can not find a command to unmark a drive from its defunt state, and it remembers the drive if I move it around the raid. I dont want to reset all the drives now. It crossed my mind to remove all the drives but the defunt one, boot the cd, then restore all drives to original state, which would then only reset the defunt one, but I would think that that would mess with the raid controller in bad ways. (the drives are in raid 1, every other drive paired to the one below it incase one crashed, as it seems one did. the other two sets are fine)

also, is there a good place to buy uscsi drives? I've found a few on ebay, most of them are older ones jerked from previously working systems. they would seem to be fairly specialty and some of the new ones I've found cost more than I paid for my entire box ($120 [80 for the box, 40 shipping]). not a big deal, I've still got 5 left and if I need to I'll get another box off ebay to canabilize.

anyways, I got the box off ebay a little while back to play around with, but now its become my desktop system. a large, rather noisy desktop. also takes some use off my laptop

9/6/2006 12:24:25 AM