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geneius · 05-18-2004, 10:23 AM

Just upgraded my 2200 from two 80s to two SeaGate 120s. I downloaded DigitalDolly (like the cloned sheep, not porn related!) from download.com and did a raw copy on both drives. DigitalDolly is linux based on a bootable CD-ROM and worked like a charm, took a couple of hours though.

Anyway, at first the 2200 saw the drive as only 80 then I did the reformat dev /reinit command and voila!

OS is v3+ and so is the BIOS. I have another 2200 with a v4.0 os and 3..4 bios and may try it on a 160G drive.

Thanks all for your other posts, it really helped.

Oh, for the person who had a failed 2200 at RAID 0 (striped array), I had the same issue. Here's what I'm doing:

1. Find out which drive failed.
2. Find the exact drive (mine's a Maxtor D540X0-4K, P/N: MX4K080H4 that I found at driveguys.com for $79) to replace it.
3. Raw copy it
4. swap it in and try it out. - the SnapServer should do a disk scan a boot.

I'm still waiting for my drive to come in so I can't tell you if it worked yet or not. However, I did try to recover the data using my two 120s to bypass the 'frozen' scandisk procedure and it completed. The only hiccup was that the RAID 0 was looking for a particular cylinder set on the drive, and...well, the 120 is much different that the 80. So, in theory, getting the same exact drive should work. One more thing: not all 80G drives are the same, get the EXACT one to be safe... :shrug:

**UPDATE**
(5/25/04) - All did not go well. The SnapServer keeps attempting to fix the disk but would give me a error: "File System Check : FSCK fatal error = 15 " and "File System Check : Cylinder group 4044: bad magic number" then it unmounts the drives.

When cloning the drive earlier it did show numerous errors, so it's probably missing vital info that it needs to 'stripe' correctly. I'm still trying. If anyone can give some advice, it is welcomed.

05-18-2004, 10:23 AM	#97
geneius Cooling Neophyte Join Date: May 2004 Location: Colorado Posts: 2	Just upgraded my 2200 from two 80s to two SeaGate 120s. I downloaded DigitalDolly (like the cloned sheep, not porn related!) from download.com and did a raw copy on both drives. DigitalDolly is linux based on a bootable CD-ROM and worked like a charm, took a couple of hours though. Anyway, at first the 2200 saw the drive as only 80 then I did the reformat dev /reinit command and voila! OS is v3+ and so is the BIOS. I have another 2200 with a v4.0 os and 3..4 bios and may try it on a 160G drive. Thanks all for your other posts, it really helped. Oh, for the person who had a failed 2200 at RAID 0 (striped array), I had the same issue. Here's what I'm doing: 1. Find out which drive failed. 2. Find the exact drive (mine's a Maxtor D540X0-4K, P/N: MX4K080H4 that I found at driveguys.com for $79) to replace it. 3. Raw copy it 4. swap it in and try it out. - the SnapServer should do a disk scan a boot. I'm still waiting for my drive to come in so I can't tell you if it worked yet or not. However, I did try to recover the data using my two 120s to bypass the 'frozen' scandisk procedure and it completed. The only hiccup was that the RAID 0 was looking for a particular cylinder set on the drive, and...well, the 120 is much different that the 80. So, in theory, getting the same exact drive should work. One more thing: not all 80G drives are the same, get the EXACT one to be safe... :shrug: UPDATE (5/25/04) - All did not go well. The SnapServer keeps attempting to fix the disk but would give me a error: "File System Check : FSCK fatal error = 15 " and "File System Check : Cylinder group 4044: bad magic number" then it unmounts the drives. When cloning the drive earlier it did show numerous errors, so it's probably missing vital info that it needs to 'stripe' correctly. I'm still trying. If anyone can give some advice, it is welcomed. Last edited by geneius; 05-25-2004 at 12:50 PM.