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Replace primary drive how-to (2021)

October 26, 2021December 7, 2022 unocode_pnz3cj

Way back, I wrote a how-to on replacing a primary drive. I had to reference this with a recent server that had a primary failure, and want to update the process. First, I followed the above how-to and ran into MAJOR issues with grub. Since that article, there has been an update to grub2, which… Continue reading Replace primary drive how-to (2021)

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Identifying Hard Drives

October 21, 2021 unocode_pnz3cj

Dealing with a system with multiple SATA drives and having a drive failure after fsck, you’ll want to pull the appropriate drive. But how do you identify what drive is what? Use hdparm! I have 2 separate drives in this particular system. sda is the failed drive, so wanted to if there was any specific… Continue reading Identifying Hard Drives

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Replace primary drive how-to (2021)

Identifying Hard Drives