Ian Batterbee wrote: > > - Am I supposed to use md to do the array ? Yes, because in case of hardware failure this is the option which leaves you with a bootable system in case of hardware failure - AFAIK. > - Is there some way I can still use ataraid ? - If I do use ataraid, > should I break the mirror in the BIOS, or should I leave it enabled ? You do not want that because the driver was not fault tolerant at all last time I looked. Iff (if and only if) you decide to use ataraid nevertheless, leave the mirror settings in the BIOS enabled. > - How do I determine the state of the mirror (depends on how I created > the mirror) For md: see the man page of md For ataraid: kneel down before your creator and pray. > For what it's worth, I did a quick trawl of the achives for this list > and didn't see any obvious document that answered my questions, but I > apologise if this stuff has been asked a million times already. Check the linux-kernel and linux-raid archives, they surely contain additional information you could use. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/