As I said before know that it works. Maybe someone could chip in if they have had a personal experience of it not working. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerhard Fiedler" To: Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 11:56 AM Subject: Re: [EE]:: BIOS R.A.I.D. 1 Advise Was: Whr R.A.I.D. is a terrible idea > M. Adam Davis wrote: > >> One of the major advantages of RAID 1 is that you can take one of the >> disks, at any time, and plug it in somewhere else with no RAID card, and >> it'll work fine. RAID configuration is held at the very end of the disk >> for all the controllers I've worked with, so really trying to find the >> exact same MB or chipset or controller card is a non-issue. > > Clint Sharp wrote: > >> Buy a controller that you can transfer between motherboards or use >> software mirroring so you can transfer the drives to another machine if >> the motherboard dies a nasty death. If you rely on an integrated RAID >> controller then you need to get the same type of motherboard or >> something *very* similar. In the case of a clone machine this could turn >> out to be impossible. > > Richard Benfield wrote: > >> For raid 1 I wouldn't agree with you we have had several problems on our >> system with data glitches or drive failures its always been a simple >> matter of taking the drive out and putting it into another pc to clone >> it just in case before placing back in the original pc with a new drive >> so that the mirror can be rebuilt . Its always worked. and this is >> between different chipsets or add-in raid cards. > > Some say this works, some say it doesn't. Does anybody have something > conclusive? In the end, you probably should try it if you want to use > hardware RAID1, and take one of the drives and try to boot from it. > > Gerhard > > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist