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Re: [cobalt-users] Raq4r Hard disk failure.



At 01:22 PM 7/23/2002, you wrote:
On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, William J.A. Brillinger wrote:

> At 08:23 AM 23/07/02 -0500, you wrote:
> >Note: I do not wish to reinstall the OS and restore backups. So my main
> >question is can the RAID array be "grown" in size by inserting a new disk,
> >then doing the other later.
> >Thanks in advance!
>
> The easiest way to do this is to use Norton Ghost to resize the master to
> the new drive.

I think he wants to put in one large drive and keep the other.
He should be able to replace the bad drive and raid will initilize
it and make it the same as the working drive.


My understanding is that when the two drives are not identical, they rebuild each time the system is restarted.