[RAS] ras was down

[Thomas Krichel]

  Bob Parks writes

> OK,  I have a space solution.  Nebka is identical to snefru and I just 
> installed a 143 gig disk on snefru - mounted as /newdisk
> I will ship a disk to Christian if he replies with a US Mail address.
> Physically, you must simply pull out one of the empty disk trays in nebka, 
> and replace it with the disk I ship to you.
> I powered the machine down to do that and since you have to boot it anyway 
> to get to the raid controller, you really
> have to power down.
> Using thumb and forefinger, push the protusion on the disk and it will open 
> up.  Very simple.
> BOOT.
> at boot CTRL-A to enter the configuration
> Sometime you may get a message to ACCEPT current configuration - ACCEPT
> At main menu, DISK UTILITIES, select #0 and find the two FUJITSU - escape
>                              select #1 to find the IBM disk to be sure the 
> contoller sees it.
> Escape back to main menu
> Select Container Configuration
>   INTIALIZE DRIVE
>     Select channel 1
>     press insert to select
>     press enter to continue
>     press enter to initialize
>   Create container
>        right arrow to select channel 1
>          the one drive IBM  136.7GB is highlighted
>           press insert to select
>           press enter to continue
>         press enter and type a label - no spaces or special characters - i 
> used newdisk (and wasted a few hours having typed new disk r.t. newdisk)
>         press enter until done
>   message creating container
>   check the container is there - DO NOT INITIALIZE the disk after creating 
> the container
>  press escape to exit controller configuration
>
> after boot, you can check the the disk is there with
> fdisk -l    should show /dev/sdb and that it does not have a partition
> I use cfdisk to create the partition
> mkfs /dev/sdb1
> and you have space, now figure out where you want to mount it
>
> and that is it.  Christian, let me know a USPS mail address - and I will 
> ship the disk, all 143 gig of it.


  I am sure you will all join me to thank Bob for this.
  Nebka has been cronically short of space. 

  Cheers,

  Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
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