Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 15:32:07 -0500 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: Chris <racerx@makeworld.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: RAID - can a mirrored disk be used on a non-RAID controller? Message-ID: <4066EFF7.7035.713D0BAF@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200403281415.19594.racerx@makeworld.com> References: <4066EB0D.5638.7129DAAE@localhost>
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On 28 Mar 2004 at 14:15, Chris wrote: > 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. Right you are. We're talking a RAID IDE card here. -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ BSDCan - http://www.bsdcan.org/
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