[Gllug] Hardware RAID On-Disc Format

[Doug Winter]

I've been using 3ware IDE RAID cards for a while now, and I've found
them to be most excellent.  I've basically stopped using software RAID
and instead shelling out for these 3ware cards.

I mentioned this to a friend who said he'd never use hardware raid if he
could avoid it, because of difficulty he had in recovering once.  He
said that he'd had a (can't remember the brand) raid card blow up on
him, and then discovered that the individual discs wouldn't work on
normal IDE controllers and that the on-disc data format was completely
to cock and basically unrecoverable.

I had, perhaps naively, assumed that the disk format on the individual
drives was going to be whatever the OS thought it was.  Anyone know
anything about this?  I'm quite tempted to test it, because I'd hate to
be left up the proverbial by a vendor going bust.

Cheers,

Doug.

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