On 23 Feb 2003 at 12:53am, Maurice Hilarius wrote > Actually it makes tons of sense. *snip* > 2) If you lose a disk at a later date, you don;t have to worry about > getting the same exact drive to replace it with. Don't most hardware RAIDs (including the 3ware) deal just fine with dissimilar new disks, as long as their block count is >= that of the original disks? My external IDE-SCSI unit does this, and I know my 3wares deal with disks with different rotation speeds. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html