I just replaced a drive successfully, ( SCSI ID2 ) and am considering pre-loading a stand by drive as I hated to run FDISK on a live system.
The RAID how-to's are very helpful for replacement, but I couldn't find a stand by solution I understood.
It's a SCSI system, and the Adaptec card boots SCSI ID0, obviously the stand by should work as either ID0 or ID2, since I can't predict which will fail.
IF I clone my current ID 0 drive, ( with OS, users, etc installed ) is it possible that on replacement, my system will revert to February 2004 and lose the newer data?
I've read posts about systems that failed, where both drives had boot partition errors but the data partition was OK, so I'd like to build a bootable stand by, and attach the data from the existing drives, but I'm not sure how to proceed.
thanks
mike
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