Christopher Mahmood wrote:
Ah. No, that's not the way RAID works.
jlemay@njmc.com pointed out that that I missed the raid 1 part of this (I read 5 for some reason). Yes, that should work. Sorry about that,
My apologies for the direct reply. I forgot that when I reply to this list it actually goes to the sender if I don't change the To: field. My actual response was:
Not true. I regularly use Highpoint and Promise ATA RAID contollers. Any disk that was part of a RAID 1 (mirror) set can be booted on its own regardless of whether it was the primary or mirror disk in the set. I
This is in fact EXACTLY how RAID 1 works. Lose a disk, boot from the other one.
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