On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 02:15, Jones, Steven wrote: > If you lose the primary boot disk on software raid its not bootable in my > experience.
That's often the case. If the disk entirely dies then the BIOS should be able to boot from the other disk, but if the disk partially fails then it'll probably not be bootable. But if you want to save money on hardware software RAID-1 is a very good option. -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]