04-14-2009, 01:00 PM
I looked around and I get mostly the discussions on the RAID levels and I'm rolling my eyes, so I'd figure maybe I could just ask y'all:
I have a RAID controller that starts up during POST. I have one disk by itself, and I have two other disks in RAID-0 (striping). If I unplug the disks that are striped and temporarily plug in another, and THEN put those two disks back, will it be like nothing happened? I guess I'm asking this: the actual definitions and pointers and stuff are on the disks, yes? If the two disks see each other then they're happy and the RAID controller sees they're happy and it's happy, yes? Even after physically removing them from the host PC and then reconnecting them?
I have a suspect disk that I want to test. I plan on using a Ubuntu Live CD and peeking at the suspect through that instead of loading up Windows and watching it wonder where my original disks are but I don't want to break their magical "RAID link" and make the striped disks unreadable.
Guidance appreciated, thanks.
I have a RAID controller that starts up during POST. I have one disk by itself, and I have two other disks in RAID-0 (striping). If I unplug the disks that are striped and temporarily plug in another, and THEN put those two disks back, will it be like nothing happened? I guess I'm asking this: the actual definitions and pointers and stuff are on the disks, yes? If the two disks see each other then they're happy and the RAID controller sees they're happy and it's happy, yes? Even after physically removing them from the host PC and then reconnecting them?
I have a suspect disk that I want to test. I plan on using a Ubuntu Live CD and peeking at the suspect through that instead of loading up Windows and watching it wonder where my original disks are but I don't want to break their magical "RAID link" and make the striped disks unreadable.
Guidance appreciated, thanks.