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From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org>
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Subject: Re: RAID - can a mirrored disk be used on a non-RAID controller?
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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.
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