Re: [nlug] RAID question...

2011-02-02 Thread Dave Tomlin
Hey Richard. Was this actual hardware raid, or a fakeraid controller? Dave On 2/2/11, Richard Thomas r...@dicksonlife.com wrote: Some may remember I asked this question a while back: On 2/18/2010 12:16 PM, Richard Thomas wrote: I couldn't find an answer to this, possibly because it would be

Re: [nlug] RAID question...

2011-02-02 Thread Richard Thomas
On 2/2/2011 9:06 AM, Dave Tomlin wrote: Hey Richard. Was this actual hardware raid, or a fakeraid controller? Dave I believe it's mostly hardware but there is a software component involved so it's apparently fakeraid. Ghost recognizes two drives unless you specify the bios access action and

Re: [nlug] RAID question...

2010-02-18 Thread Chris McQuistion
How exactly could this happen in the real world? I imagine that the most recently attached drive would be considered the master by the RAID controller and would be used to rebuild the other drive, but I'm just guessing since that seems to be the logical thing to do. Chris On Thu, Feb 18, 2010

Re: [nlug] RAID question...

2010-02-18 Thread Bill Woody
If he got confused on which drive was which I could see the first half happening. I cannot fathom a reason switch, make shanges and reboot with both plugged in.. unless to see what would happen. In any case, your logic seems correct. Maybe Rich will try it and let us know. W On Thu, Feb 18,

Re: [nlug] RAID question...

2010-02-18 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
- Richard Thomas r...@dicksonlife.com wrote: I couldn't find an answer to this, possibly because it would be a retarded thing to do but I was just wondering... Say you had mirrored (say hardware) RAID with two drives. Reboot the system with one drive unplugged, make some changes then

Re: [nlug] RAID question...

2010-02-18 Thread Richard Thomas
Steven S. Critchfield wrote: - Richard Thomas r...@dicksonlife.com wrote: I couldn't find an answer to this, possibly because it would be a retarded thing to do but I was just wondering... Say you had mirrored (say hardware) RAID with two drives. Reboot the system with one drive