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Re: [cobalt-users] (OT) Raid solution

Brent Sims wrote:

> As for the benefit of using Duplidisk, assuming
> that Cobalt's software implimention of RAID is similar to that of
> RedHat, the advantage would be that you would end with a bootable
> drive if you use Duplidisk - you don't with the Software RAID
> implimentation.

I'm sure it is.  My understanding is that the drive is bootable; you
just have to move it to be the primary drive on the primary IDE channel.

Presuming that's true, and presuming I probably will want to replace a
bad drive as quickly as possible, I think when I have a hard-drive
failure I'll bring a new drive with me to the colo room, and move the
working drive to IDE channel 1 primary, then install the new one, and
reboot the system.

That should work.

Or am I missing something?

> DupliDisk is very very cool. Totally OS independent RAID 1.
> Just plug it in and let it do it's thing.

Thanks for bringing it to our attention.

Jeff
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