On Wed, 19 Sep 2001 21:49:21 +0300
Jaakko Tamminen
You could also use 5+1 mode with all 3 HD connected.
Then 2 of them would receive striping (fast) write/read, and the third one would have calculated checksum.
If any one of the disk fails, it can be rebuild from the 2 others.
This way You could utilise the extra speed and capasity as well.
Thanks to both Ian and Jaska. I had given a little thought to RAID, but did not have time to investigate properly. Now this paranoia about the possible consequences of failure of my present HDD has set in I am going to get one spare immediately and go with dd solution (plus power down of /dev/hdb1 with hdparm), which will only take an hour. I will then probably go for RAID when I have time to understand and do that job properly. Its a funny thing you know - I could do most of my vital work on a simple Win98 machine - but after almost a year full-time on linux the thought of falling back on any aspect of Windows seems utterly intolerable. Regards, Geoff _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com