Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 11:44:51 -0700 From: "Brent Wiese" <brently@bjwcs.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Upgrading mobos...raid 1 to no raid? Message-ID: <00d801c2f2fe$9f0eafb0$0a0114ac@home.bjwcs.com> In-Reply-To: <1048601387.665.11.camel@darwin.lastamericanempire.com>
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It depends on the RAID chip. I believe (don't quote me on this tho) that the Promise raid chips in mirroring mode uses a "master" drive, then mirrors that to the secondary drive as it can (I'm sure using some complicated methodolgy). In theory, = you should just be able to use the regular wd driver and let the system boot = up, assuming you didn't pull that from your kernel... Of course, the best thing to do is to backup the drive first before attempting. There are lots of new boards out there that have the raid chips on them. = Why not stick to one of those? They're not much pricier and the convenience = of mirroring when a drive dies is so nice... :) Just make sure its the same chip... Promise and Highpoint are the 2 most common and they don't mix. = I had a stripe on a promise and moved it to a highpoint (figuring I'd have = to break and rebuild it). The highpoint claimed to recognize it and the o/s = saw the stripe, but everything was corrupted on disk checks and such, so = don't let it fool you! brent > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG=20 > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of=20 > Zach Thompson > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 7:10 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Upgrading mobos...raid 1 to no raid? >=20 >=20 > On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 06:55, Zach Thompson wrote: > > Also, when and how should I change the mount points for > > the file systems, e.g. via an install cd, before I switch=20 > mobos, etc.? >=20 > Sorry, really meant the device as this is what will be changing. >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >=20 >=20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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