19 Sep
2001
19 Sep
'01
18:40
I attacked this problem a slightly different way. I bought a Promise RAID controller and three (not one) spare HDD. The two-element RAID mirrored RAID array has one drive fixed and one removable. Every so often I take out the removable drive and put in one of the others. Then I reboot - the hardware BIOS complains that the RAID array has a critical failure and offers to fix it. I allow it to do so (it clones the drive again) and off we go. Then the RAID keeps the two drives in sync. If one fails nothing much happens - you don't know about it till next boot time. IB