Finally I got my old 30GB Snap 1000 to a 120GB (WD)
Thanks for the help on this forum, so it is my turn to post a few mistakes / findings on my own.
1.- Use a ATA 100 harddrive
my first atempts were with an ATA 133, Even though it rebooted as a 30GB after cloning (using DOLLY), when issuing the /reinit command, the appliance will not do the job.... The format operation took about 10 hours, and I simply stoped it... and you don't have access to the
http://server/config/ pages to track the formating.
The weird part is that the ATA 133 120GB will work great as a slave of the original 30Gb... ? (replacing the cables of course) but I couldn't find a suitable casing for this.
2. Timing
Cloning with DOLLY from 30Gb to 120GB took about 1.5 hours
Formating / Restarting the new 120 GB takes a lot more time that I was used to with the 30GB
3. what to do with the old drive ?
Keep it in a safe place...Since the valuable partition data still on this, you will need it to rebuild a new drive on the appliance in the future, unless we figure how to store this info on an image file.
jimeu