On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 06:05:17PM +0200, Alessandro Baggi wrote: > Hi Darac, > for raid software you can use mdadm. Do you want install system on raid or > do you want use raid for data? before creting raid array, write 0 on each > sector with dd (man dd). There are different paper on the web for this. Hi Alessandro, I think you've misread this thread. It's not I who wants to install anything on RAID. In fact, no-one on this thread mentioned anything of the sort. The point is how to get rid of a pre-existing RAID array. P.S. Please don't top post, and please don't send HTML. > > See you. > > Il giorno 17/ott/2012 17:27, "Darac Marjal" <[1]mailinglist@darac.org.uk> > ha scritto: > > 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. > > References > > Visible links > 1. mailto:mailinglist@darac.org.uk
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