On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 22:00:22 -0600, Sam MacDonald <smac at visi.com> wrote:
> 
> You need to tell the Raid Controller the drive is there by using Smartstart.

It sounds to me like the RAID controller is seeing everything.  If the
new installation is installed to drive 3, then that means that the
RAID controller sees all 3 drives.  The first 2 were already a mirror,
so there's no need to initialize them, since they already have a COD.
I definitely think that Ken is onto something.  I'm betting that you
have partitions on the mirror and on drive 3 that have the same label
on the partition, and when your system tries to go through fstab and
mount the partitions by label it's seeing 2 of everything and failing.
 So modify the fstab to mount by device rather than label, then mount
the RAID partitions somewhere in /mnt and copy the files over that you
need.
Of course, if you want be safe when doing stuff, just put one of the
mirrored drives in.  It should still work fine, it'll just be
"degraded."  And if something really gets FUBAR, you have the other
half of the mirror sitting there untouched.  If all goes well, stick
the second drive in after you copy files over and it should
automatically rebuild.

-- 
Justin Kremer <justin.kremer at gmail.com>
"The best advice I can give you is not to trust the state for anything." 
    - Henn. Co. Court Officer

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