On Sunday 02 April 2006 17:48, Matthias Andree wrote: > > You can't boot off a system with a dead primary disk with software RAID1. > > (well you MIGHT but.. in any case RAID1 cards are quite cheap) > > It's a matter of the BIOS: > will it complain, or will it proceed to the next SATA disk?
Yes indeed. It also depends on the failure mode of the disk. Personally I think the price is worth paying :) (Although for a home server you can get your hands on easily then software RAID should not be a problem) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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