04-22-2010
Thanks for the advice.
I had confirmed with the manufacturer and they would not respect the warranty if I opened it up.
I transferred the primary master HDD to the old-old PC, to see how things would go. I used a live disc to fsck it (it needed it) and then booted. This all went perfectly. I then configured NFS shares on the new system and ran some crossover cable between the systems. It fell away here, however. I seemed to be able to get the new PC to recognise what I was trying to do, but the old one just would not acknowledge the Ethernet at all. I tried even connecting to the Internet, but that failed. Perhaps the Ethernet port was damaged some time in the past?
While struggling with this, I realised there was actually a far easier, far more obvious route that I had not considered. Why not just make the IDE drives USB? I hunted around and found a local supplier who stocks IDE-to-USB adapters. I have started transferring files this way. It seems to be mostly successful, but there does appear to be something horridly wrong. Periodically it will fail (I/O errors), and when I check dmesg I find all manner of kernel errors about the connection and a note that it remounted the drive (after this ls no longer works on the drive). So far, I have just been noting which filed failed. I tried unplugging the drive, letting it cool down (it was burning up), and reconnected to retransfer one of the files that failed. At least this one worked after doing this. I am about half way so far, but this seems to be a pretty good solution.
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HD(4) Linux Programmer's Manual HD(4)
NAME
hd - MFM/IDE hard disk devices
DESCRIPTION
The hd* devices are block devices to access MFM/IDE hard disk drives in raw mode. The master drive on the primary IDE controller (major
device number 3) is hda; the slave drive is hdb. The master drive of the second controller (major device number 22) is hdc and the slave
hdd.
General IDE block device names have the form hdX, or hdXP, where X is a letter denoting the physical drive, and P is a number denoting the
partition on that physical drive. The first form, hdX, is used to address the whole drive. Partition numbers are assigned in the order
the partitions are discovered, and only non-empty, non-extended partitions get a number. However, partition numbers 1-4 are given to the
four partitions described in the MBR (the `primary' partitions), regardless of whether they are unused or extended. Thus, the first logi-
cal partition will be hdX5. Both DOS-type partitioning and BSD-disklabel partitioning are supported. You can have at most 63 partitions
on an IDE disk.
For example, /dev/hda refers to all of the first IDE drive in the system; and /dev/hdb3 refers to the third DOS `primary' partition on the
second one.
They are typically created by:
mknod -m 660 /dev/hda b 3 0
mknod -m 660 /dev/hda1 b 3 1
mknod -m 660 /dev/hda2 b 3 2
...
mknod -m 660 /dev/hda8 b 3 8
mknod -m 660 /dev/hdb b 3 64
mknod -m 660 /dev/hdb1 b 3 65
mknod -m 660 /dev/hdb2 b 3 66
...
mknod -m 660 /dev/hdb8 b 3 72
chown root:disk /dev/hd*
FILES
/dev/hd*
SEE ALSO
mknod(1), chown(1), mount(8), sd(4)
Linux 1992-12-17 HD(4)