CERC ATA 100 4ch and ghost 2003

[Greg Gilmour]

On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 07:35:18AM -0700, Mauro wrote:
> I have a DELL PowerEdge 650 with RH9.  I'm attempting to make a ghost 2003
> image of the drive but have run into the incompatability of ghost 2003 with
> RAID configurations (software or hardware it seems).  I need to 'break' the
> raid 1 mirror so that I can take a ghost image.  Have also read the user
> guide I found at the lsil.com website but it is not clear to me how to
> accomplish this.
> 
> If anyone has had success in using ghost 2003 to image their IDE drives with
> this controller I'd love to get some pointers. Perhaps there is a way in the
> configuration menu to disable the array and then re-enable it without data
> loss or a rebuild?  Thank you for any information or input.

Hello Mauro,

I don't know the hardware with a PE 650, but you might try Ghost 4 Linux
(G4L) [0].  I have used it with other PowerEdge systems, as well as HP,
and even Windows workstations with great success.

[0] http://freshmeat.net/projects/g4l/

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