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On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 10:54:50AM +0100, Oliver Humpage wrote:
> 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.

There is of course the risk that the first write (e.g. an access time
update) will fry the disk though... :( Also, e.g. with IDE disks,
disabling smart might be a good plan, because often it seems to
reallocate blocks before they become unreadable. As you say 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.

Personally I always take a raw, from read only disk image as a starter
and only ever work from that. Even if it is some weird RAID format.

        Steve