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on 3/7/07 10:50, Rick Edwards at rick.edwards at gmail.com wrote:

> The problem is that the new
> server supplied by DELL is RAID 5 and these disks came out of a RAID 1
> machine.

Depends on the RAID card, but generally I've found that RAID 1 disks work
very nicely on their own (as opposed to RAID 5 ones, which obviously don't).
Because they're a mirror, each disk is just an exact copy of what you used
to have.

So long as you plug it one into a normal controller (not a raid one), and
don't click "yes" to anything, it *ought* to be OK to give it a go. Possibly
:) YMMV.

Or another option is to look up the motherboard specs, work out which raid
controller chip it used, then see if you can get hold of a card with the
same chip in.

Oliver.