> Is there a way to copy it to a hardware RAID 1 array of two > drives in a similiar way? The same way? The underlying OS knows nothing of the physical geometry behind a hardware raid controller. Find out what dev it is, sd? and do what you did, so long as it's exactly the same size or bigger. > If so what not too expensive 2 port >hardware raid controller do you reccommend and how do you do it? 2 port? never seen one, but I like LSI's... jlc