On 8/6/2015 3:56 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 08/05/2015 08:12 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: >> >> This is an old system with only IDE ports. There is an added >> Highpoint raid card which is used only for the two extra IDE ports. > > Why "extra"? Are there drives connected to this system other than the > two you're discussing for the software RAID sets? > > I know you said that you can't take the system down for an extended > period of time. Do you have enough time to connect the two 1TB drives > and nothing else, and do a new install? It would be useful to know if > such an install booted, to exclude the possibility that there's some > fundamental incompatibility between some combination of the BIOS, the > Highpoint boot ROM, and the 1TB drives. > > If it doesn't boot, you have the option of putting the bootloader, > kernel, and initrd on some other media. You could boot from an > optical disc, or a USB drive, or CF. To be honest, I don't remember why the Highpoint card was used. It could be that I had originally intended to use the raid capabilities of the card, or maybe I just didn't want the two members of the mirror to be master/slave on the same IDE channel. Doing a new install on the two 1TB drives is my current plan. If that works, I can connect the old drive, copy over all the data, and then try to figure out what I need to do to get all the programs running again. -- Bowie