Re: [CentOS] Transferring system to new RAID drive

2010-09-29 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Is there a way to copy it to a hardware RAID 1 array of two drives in a similiar way? The same way? The underlying OS knows nothing of the physical geometry behind a hardware raid controller. Find out what dev it is, sd? and do what you did, so long as it's exactly the same size or bigger.

Re: [CentOS] Transferring system to new RAID drive

2010-09-29 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, September 29, 2010 12:13:52 pm Matt wrote: Is there a way to copy it to a hardware RAID 1 array of two drives in a similiar way? If so what not too expensive 2 port hardware raid controller do you reccommend and how do you do it? 3ware 9500S; can be had used and NOS (New Old

Re: [CentOS] Transferring system to new RAID drive

2010-09-29 Thread Matt
 Is there a way to copy it to a hardware RAID 1 array of two drives in a similiar way? The same way? The underlying OS knows nothing of the physical geometry behind a hardware raid controller. Find out what dev it is, sd? and do what you did, so long as it's exactly the same size or bigger.

Re: [CentOS] Transferring system to new RAID drive

2010-09-29 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Would going from a single 500G sata to two 500G sata drives in hardware raid 1 work? Just wandering if some space will be lost using raid 1? Again like I said: The same or bigger. Often HW raid controllers coerce the size of a drive down a gig or so slightly different drives can all work