[geeks] Commiserate with me ... this sucks.

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, mrl wrote:

>> I have actually had a RAID controller fail, and used Software RAID under
>> Linux to reconstruct the RAID array.
>
> You can do that? I didn't realize... I thought that if you used a
> hardware RAID controller, if that controller ever died, you *had* to use
> the same controller unless you want to reformat your disks.

He said RAID 1, which is just mirroring of the two physical devices into
one metadevice.  There's no black magic there.

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