Re: IDE hard drive failure
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 16:39, Paladin wrote:
> Do you know of any program that allows access to a drive bypassing
> the BIOS?
You can try to disable the drive in the BIOS, the Linux kernel ignores those
settings anyway. Chances are though that this won't improve the situation.
> BTW, would you recommend RAID5 using an entire disk and two
> partitions of another? (If it's even possible to do that...)
This kind of defeats the prupose of RAID5, but it is certainly possible using
the kernel's software RAID feature. Failure of the disk with the two
partitions on it will kill *all your data* because in a RAID5 array only one
disk may fail.
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