Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 14:15:19 -0600 From: Chris <racerx@makeworld.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RAID - can a mirrored disk be used on a non-RAID controller? Message-ID: <200403281415.19594.racerx@makeworld.com> In-Reply-To: <4066EB0D.5638.7129DAAE@localhost> References: <4066EB0D.5638.7129DAAE@localhost>
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On Sunday 28 March 2004 02:11 pm, Dan Langille wrote: > I had a hard disk failure this weekend. I had been considering RAID > mirroring but this has brought the issue forward. > > My plan is to create a box with two drives and use a RAID card to > mirror them. Should the RAID card die, can I move a drive to another > box with a standard IDE controller and run the system from there? In > short, I'm asking, does the RAID controller create a drive image > which cannot be used by an IDE controller? Dan, I assume the RAID card is IDE? If not, then SCSI cant be hooked up to an IDE cable - but you knew that. -- Best regards, Chris
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