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Re: raid



On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 04:19:08PM +0200, steef wrote:
> hi all,
> 
> my youngest son gave me two hd's (1 terab. each) included a
> raid-array on ech hd 500 GB; *made by windows7*
> 
> how do i get rid of this array? mdadm tells me nothing up till now.

No, it won't. As far as I know, mdadm will only work with Linux's
software RAID implementation.

> 
> how to handle this?
> 
> thanks for all the help i can get here. i put the 2 hd's in a
> machine loaded with sid on a third hd.

If you don't need the RAID array, just treat the disks as blank. That
is, put a new partition table on them and mkfs them. Windows 7's RAID
won't have put anything permanent on the disks.

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