Peter Arremann <loony at loonybin.org> wrote: > When initializing a raid 1, the controller wipes out all > data according to the manuals. Every now and then you hear > from people that say that the controller copies everything > from disk1 to disk2 and if your IDE controller sector > mapping matches what the 3ware controller does, you can > keep your data in tact. Actually, for RAID-1, 3Ware does _not_ using additional blocking/organization, and does a direct mirror. I.e., the disks _can_ be used "normally." For RAID-0, 10 and 5, 3Ware uses 32KiB blocking and the volumes are completely _unusable_ by anything else AFAIK (maybe LVM2-MD?). -- Bryan J. Smith | Sent from Yahoo Mail mailto:b.j.smith at ieee.org | (please excuse any http://thebs413.blogspot.com/ | missing headers)